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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.
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* F$ q3 J& A2 z. b4 u6 ]# [. dAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English8 ~& ]5 H) z* I7 k& c" c
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' |+ ]7 A b+ I& ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make2 n$ ]* n$ c; N
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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4 R6 E! ~* ^! X! d* LThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 @: P( @) V) G, h
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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/ y. u9 }% | i# [8 SThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 J) K" _( ~: k5 h2 p
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- R- h1 h+ K {4 u; ~
fotograf 20% shorter.4 a: ]4 p% n7 _2 ?8 r
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" Y2 P/ j: H$ B/ B! `$ Q0 w
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible., [+ `% q& K4 f8 V" H9 B3 S/ f
/ ?6 i( U4 m9 sGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always& G2 c* X0 W$ C4 s4 M1 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling./ }' f& q0 m3 f5 x
2 A: `% Y& N; L2 h, T& j9 q+ BAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 n' e" c/ Q+ A5 Y" K
disgrasful and it should go away.
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b/ k% Y& Y+ ^3 B/ b f$ WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with- e; G) w. P; |: 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( x7 n4 _- x2 D& D x6 u- Q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* [+ d. T' O9 u b" @
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# N% a, A" ~; Y) \! j: Z9 K
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 Y. S' M5 [% |$ q; s) h @( SUnd 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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