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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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4 j& V/ `9 Y6 G% P) A, a4 H5 ?As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
0 w7 s6 z+ t* `: Lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& u0 S8 H0 ^2 q2 G8 splan 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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( d" p2 E: a/ [% E; f6 Rkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.% [: y4 g+ K" X! O9 R" R
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& N U% r. s: _4 zThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, y9 C: l5 Y r# m6 N9 _5 T& a4 C9 z
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% L" L: A" C) C* ]0 ~( t
fotograf 20% shorter.. L5 Q/ S0 s; G9 ?% p$ O) a
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- N$ a, C1 o( ~, u
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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8 A& j5 P2 Z$ ^6 D# Y) lBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( o- E5 T& z; f9 p, Q2 vDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 _9 N+ T) i4 T( m# h# m
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$ ~5 {1 n7 ~2 M5 A
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
- H0 r# U3 C. v, 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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