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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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& S" |5 Z) v. D* V8 dAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% N* D" [) Q( T9 I4 q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 ]- G8 P! A% \8 J
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* v/ Z' `3 i# z6 DIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" W6 k! t8 a8 o% @4 C( A4 j2 w v9 sthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( C3 N/ |: H$ i0 q, c: j( f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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4 C5 v& n+ s) R3 \$ b( L, TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 Y9 q# I( n3 P1 H* ?! R7 m8 z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like+ A* D" Z2 y. H- r/ W
fotograf 20% shorter.' m# a: ?/ `. B
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' ]9 l! B* Z, E4 Y3 yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 H. m7 ^' t8 c2 H; J4 ?/ _' f0 S1 `
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 is
, q2 y8 p& c: hdisgrasful and it should go away.
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( d: J0 f! \, B9 b# W6 R wBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, ^+ G5 [) y" ~# I9 q
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* t% U* E( @. A$ fafter 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
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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; F; G) m, f4 B2 Y( H+ f/ pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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