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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.
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3 q. n' F% g$ B" R( rAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
_3 @0 W, i4 s! `- lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% b, Q# T2 b6 \7 Y3 U( p7 Z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
9 u5 U# Z9 u% Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up: a* k" j6 B) ` g Y
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.+ I, p4 L( S |' [; p6 \
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the1 t' C8 X0 b ]6 q2 K3 \
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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* `7 e2 c1 H" y# YIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% k! s$ E2 ^3 b Q" F% \8 o! A
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.+ K" L0 j4 f' r: f" K/ T
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 Q P$ }3 x/ k: Iben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ s7 U0 s4 E( k, u1 BAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 M% O7 z% y1 l, m: p- [disgrasful and it should go away.3 \; i4 Y& c: A. D
2 i. ^7 f- p+ K1 |6 A+ {" T; eBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and6 b% e& A; `: @. @
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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/ D$ F, P' o2 n h" N8 AZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu, B2 ]) o6 W. C# S P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# W, h- o0 Q, A! s. QUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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' H3 o( z7 R* I U- v. s) kIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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