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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
4 e9 {0 D% E8 j$ Pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
8 ]" f. x; J$ u1 I' [+ M5 i8 D: cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! ` u9 d/ }" u6 j5 G7 l) L' u9 Q, C
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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. n$ V5 a, v9 _' v8 @: `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.* R p: O) ? Y& j
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 d" ~1 x( n* ?# r' ]) n: D: I
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) B; o8 ?5 e' f+ i7 s8 Y1 M
fotograf 20% shorter.. d/ K# B/ ^8 {
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to F; o! ?& B! ]' {* v/ J( p- e
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.7 d/ q2 N( g8 \/ v+ s
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
: r. U/ i( t, V, U' i2 `- aben a deterent to akurate speling.
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e1 n! t' }' PAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is5 c; u7 o6 m6 J$ I1 j7 {$ [
disgrasful and it should go away.
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( ^$ Q* @8 R% V( q3 Q9 bBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! v8 u, z" m* t. `8 g8 H' P2 r
"z" and "w" with "v".' ?7 ~: Q. S; _ A3 I: e
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- Y p! \ s; L2 c+ C, _" K
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.3 S& G1 ]2 y; o+ k6 ?* P9 G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% q. D* {; R! r4 B4 \( P: e6 `/ W
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; n' X k4 s- P4 A2 XUnd 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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