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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' _- u9 p) _1 n1 E: F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# H% b+ U+ f* a( t1 _+ D7 H& V
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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+ \5 m7 @ V7 g! A, ]0 yThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
9 [* e& d; Z6 y7 y8 t2 x/ \konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: D0 Y+ C8 Q5 p! C( H
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
~* Z8 j: O" F6 D3 `+ Htroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 Y N, B n# c% m! H E1 I- ffotograf 20% shorter.
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, E% S+ g1 O3 i5 y! o dIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to5 t x+ ^: Z X- x2 e/ @ u( k; r
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 a5 i) p8 I) }
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' w$ u- T* _% U! Y; N
ben a deterent to akurate speling.% R5 p, l. H& s9 N9 K4 Z" ~& v
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* S {8 o {' M" F& e) n
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) O+ ^1 a, v: Z1 h& j s. ]
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- u; c9 K2 t' Q ~5 |" |7 V1 Z# s9 V4 _
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 tu6 K& s6 R; C# f* S) H6 L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* A. H" ]7 h4 G9 t3 [& x: s9 ^3 tUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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