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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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& z7 ~6 B' E9 [" hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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. H1 ]; H( @4 A; k6 I) GIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 X5 t& m m+ z8 r5 w8 T: mthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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, d2 q, G4 x" @6 MThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up2 Z4 w) W, i0 c! I8 Y7 W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& Z- ] O7 I7 y9 t9 b! ~) k" ?- M
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like& A. c0 @2 B" }
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ C$ _9 n" r8 U, g3 Q5 ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ W$ }) x2 x( X9 ?
/ r/ f4 M. ?/ o' v+ z: uGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
/ v5 N4 i+ f) I4 z" ^; \% {( ^ w L. zben a deterent to akurate speling.! y7 G6 [& o5 Y7 y2 F) x b- K2 S F
: i X9 K5 A0 h$ z7 IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is1 ]% Y* m5 ^, |5 Q8 M
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ B5 _) i% g& L) P9 ]$ f) q/ I TBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& y4 K" O7 z" {# X- G9 _" G1 \
"z" and "w" with "v"./ m! S1 f) i! [% d0 y
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
9 u$ \3 j2 n# o7 h$ t; ]( _. }after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu+ u/ P8 F" j' F% Q) Z/ P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.8 X; d$ [7 k! S) n4 }
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze. X: v# B8 O* @
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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