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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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* M$ t5 |; P6 `' \As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. W0 F7 i E/ ~* ?3 q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in( Q% d/ p0 b7 i6 y/ z3 @7 G4 L; d
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
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3 E; K% f* ? K$ ^0 c. bThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ \4 y: s' g( Z) f/ ikonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.# e" L; v! G! O
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the" \0 U7 C4 ~2 Q7 W' P( l6 |
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
2 D) E& C; o) S h: B( cfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# N' ^3 Q( a- [# P- jreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 b0 K" u: p) b& G8 J
* Y2 y9 F9 m' W4 Z' [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. ^1 q* i8 I2 n3 l# M
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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$ b0 O6 n: p; _Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; \8 l' _$ E$ O
disgrasful and it should go away.. z% h. e' W* S1 q! R8 X8 r( e6 _
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& y: z+ f) C1 u
"z" and "w" with "v".5 |$ G U. M" C X; F+ Q
1 D8 F9 }8 I C; \+ IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
t1 ]4 M. |. i$ H# tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 o- I v. W1 [9 }
4 y; _' `' z4 O' _4 a2 FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ V; \: o; q" k/ n/ s) P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.) ?/ m" b E1 e( w7 m8 }$ h& x+ h. p
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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3 E. k7 a9 @0 N) \7 y1 yIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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