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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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( @5 D& {( b% c# p! Kthe other possibility.
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6 c# q% T) z" ]+ AAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
/ u3 n \% @8 z- Q4 v. E( d7 b% yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 b+ `! U% G- s1 @ P) J1 D$ }
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".9 Z9 w* g& d4 D
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 r$ E) P/ _0 e8 N; [
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
) ?* ?/ A4 `! r4 f& c/ Vkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& n$ |7 a: ]+ ?7 E: U) D
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
. c( Z3 ?3 q+ a1 b$ l* @fotograf 20% shorter.
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# w/ ^" H/ p8 W5 PIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; r0 t" b4 r0 Y$ ?6 u- `reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." n, D9 M. F4 D T6 k
. A8 W$ {0 z4 N1 Q: ^# ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always7 d- i6 M. q! O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.$ N9 I I: {! m. ^
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
" ^2 D7 |8 u, ~" tdisgrasful and it should go away." @+ s# e" X4 w
% M" [0 ~+ Q: u. t% T6 GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% X4 `4 J6 Y+ {0 y6 d
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 t+ ]/ n2 M0 fafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., z# u- m' }, ?: h) M
9 B- E' e5 @' ]7 H% [Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu! k: L) d* M7 R2 ^' L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.2 B9 O( R( x6 n: Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 M8 Y/ O6 D# }1 @$ sIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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