<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-07-24_12.50/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2flemonmax.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fEnglish%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Max's Little Cube: English</title><description /><link>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catEnglish</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 02:26:53 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 02:26:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>1718704076222396181</live:id><live:alias>lemonmax</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>Izi English</title><link>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17DA104051407715!608.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;izi english&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;English language simplification agreement&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been&lt;br&gt;reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European&lt;br&gt;communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English&lt;br&gt;spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased&lt;br&gt;plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for&lt;br&gt;short).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;In the first year, &amp;quot;s&amp;quot; will be used instead of the soft &amp;quot;c&amp;quot;. Sertainly,&lt;br&gt;sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard &amp;quot;c&amp;quot; will be&lt;br&gt;replaced with &amp;quot;k&amp;quot;. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters&lt;br&gt;kan have one less letter.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the&lt;br&gt;troublesome &amp;quot;ph&amp;quot; will be replaced by &amp;quot;f&amp;quot;. This will make words like&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;fotograf&amp;quot; 20 per sent shorter.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to&lt;br&gt;reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments&lt;br&gt;will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have&lt;br&gt;always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible&lt;br&gt;mes of silent &amp;quot;e&amp;quot;s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing &amp;quot;th&amp;quot; by&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;z&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;w&amp;quot; by &amp;quot; v&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;During ze fifz year, ze unesesary &amp;quot;o&amp;quot; kan be dropd from vords kontaining&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;ou&amp;quot;, and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of&lt;br&gt;leters.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor&lt;br&gt;trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it izi tu understand ich ozer.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif"&gt;Ze drim vil finali kum tru.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" color="#ff6600" size=5&gt;Happy New Year Everyone! &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://c.services.spaces.live.com/CollectionWebService/c.gif?cid=1718704076222396181&amp;page=RSS%3a+Izi+English&amp;referrer=" width="1px" height="1px" border="0" alt=""&gt;&lt;img style="position:absolute" alt="" width="0px" height="0px" src="http://c.live.com/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;amp;NA=1149&amp;amp;PI=73329&amp;amp;RF=&amp;amp;DI=3919&amp;amp;PS=85545&amp;amp;TP=lemonmax.spaces.live.com&amp;amp;GT1=lemonmax"&gt;</description><comments>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17DA104051407715!608.entry#comment</comments><guid isPermaLink="true">http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17DA104051407715!608.entry</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:41:06 GMT</pubDate><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><msn:type>blogentry</msn:type><live:type>blogentry</live:type><live:typelabel>Blog entry</live:typelabel><wfw:commentRss>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!17DA104051407715!608/comments/feed.rss</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17DA104051407715!608.entry#comment</wfw:comment><dcterms:modified>2007-01-02T03:41:06Z</dcterms:modified></item><item><title>Something About American English</title><link>http://lemonmax.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17DA104051407715!381.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;
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&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;1. Take a test find out &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;What Kind of American English Do You Speak?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt;Your Linguistic Profile:&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;td bgcolor="#d9ffd8"&gt;60% General American English
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&lt;td bgcolor="#a8ffb3"&gt;20% Dixie
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&lt;div align=center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/"&gt;What Kind of American English Do You Speak?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div align=left&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif" size=4&gt;2. How much do you know about American accent?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen and tell me the differences --- &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/map/map.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where is the Speaker From?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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