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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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1 Y7 }: r4 z+ x! DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
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. s3 G) ~: u ?- N- K! |- Y7 Uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
6 J `; ?7 |" z% x- W, Pthe sivil servants jump with joy.4 M# J6 T4 @; b1 z+ Q1 i8 _7 g" n
% G6 E: e$ @7 x1 FThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( D% l8 @ b: f5 g( p1 Zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.9 [7 z2 m5 O( U; C- O( p) r, z2 T' ~
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ r& h' U( n6 D- P- v, J
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
' H" h# H% m' ^7 r4 j$ M9 G7 K; kfotograf 20% shorter.
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+ }7 H5 R+ `2 U* W# oIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* I- M) X+ A1 P* X0 G) {
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. f5 {4 L9 i. N; n
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 d$ J$ ^# p' F6 w- h
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 P/ N+ {/ }& ?/ `4 f
disgrasful and it should go away.$ r/ N7 g' N5 Z9 A
8 p3 R' Z. l+ o$ E) C: f6 lBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( b5 d# I( M& P; t- P* \During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ j0 }/ |1 O* j" _
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* o6 P& ^3 L8 e- P# A
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ @( a0 [# C- A, x1 B& n' J
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* B4 C3 A* X: m( s' b
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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