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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" C0 s3 X8 b4 N, {4 |& K# r# V
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- B3 B2 z2 O6 p4 K1 bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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& D) p( A# C+ A2 k/ X; `In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make0 l3 Z* C, @* Z! r, \; U4 L3 Z H
the sivil servants jump with joy.+ D8 B# v; Q8 F* Z. Y
$ N/ {; d8 n9 W, Y! R& x v' Q; iThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
/ E7 o2 i- I3 \0 N% Y; n) Zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) s% H+ k7 S; I0 d" R: g+ x$ t
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
6 \* T0 E; p* V0 {/ v! r5 f: E& Gfotograf 20% shorter.
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& X- a+ e4 A" |4 {9 [In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; Z0 U5 d9 Y0 w8 E5 Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.' S7 Q$ E* [6 ^% J0 L5 I, z
: y) B- k; [; r9 a- t' tGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always' X1 Z, S& X+ ~, j% X
ben a deterent to akurate speling.6 g; v3 P2 y2 Q, y% Y
8 D: t9 {: t* t1 {5 P! L/ hAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is7 ?+ D2 K: i$ G7 q
disgrasful and it should go away.8 {5 u& j0 x4 q# G
( ]/ {2 f: D0 K, ]By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with: p- x: @2 a4 B- _
"z" and "w" with "v".
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$ s+ h8 U! G3 s- i$ XDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) q! q1 J9 d0 m4 G. z5 Q r+ q% h% cafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) c: N) K! b( \' I6 t6 a
, O m' g5 v" O# R! l$ K" RZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
4 p4 n7 Z0 i0 Aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 J" h! w* @, w3 R: [/ \$ L, j3 XUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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1 M& \6 i" H" c, c$ X+ y( bIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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