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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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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ V2 g1 U! ]! O6 o* `. ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' Y' M X! m) Q% [. O% k/ h) L2 }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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2 u. ?) ?8 L( O5 \4 e1 MIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! w7 {, u+ g! [& [. Q& T. z' B7 V
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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1 e' U( K" k- W4 T# TThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up$ H" H4 U" V* ~# k( |1 I/ P
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 X: P% J) r- U1 W: G# C
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ q; n# N) Z0 b" u% h; C
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to- ?% z0 }' T7 |$ c, b/ t5 z5 w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.. N& O/ z5 w" W
5 l3 R2 D Y' a \# VGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 ]; ]+ @" K; D
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. e2 \* [0 Z: o7 r& D+ p s
"z" and "w" with "v".9 }& t9 ]/ I9 D5 m' H# W% v
?. |- G. f3 V( v7 z5 sDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. I4 \1 X. z1 c+ r/ j1 x8 ]- u% b
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 tu# e, e/ O, t6 u0 ], l' g0 l, d8 H/ J
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.5 K( C% ?4 @4 b
Und 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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