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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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: h2 V, D% v9 m1 O" U& D! VAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 Z% X/ s# Y3 k, Cspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in& a4 b5 Q% c5 l, t3 K* _4 @
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".. c F3 u$ v v) Z9 ~: O
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make1 V, t# T" t" y( Z9 G+ y6 P
the sivil servants jump with joy.# V! [2 R$ T, _
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
& z5 e, m( l' g' H3 F1 H, m/ ctroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
+ L c. ` Y8 @fotograf 20% shorter.
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% \* ?; N* ~: `' G) ]9 b' l, WIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
% A: s% V2 h2 N/ @reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# H! s% W d4 M; b+ n
ben a deterent to akurate speling.+ Q5 U: {2 y$ F, R) v1 y% L2 ^
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is f3 s2 [! B& Y) R
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
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
! h5 {( W2 c+ ^+ Vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' z0 ^" E' y/ ] l5 {Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu k' p- R8 Q& p2 A8 s
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% ^2 r! r. k& [" i, |. r2 @! B# W0 kUnd 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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