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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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8 D3 b0 ?8 x- g$ O. BAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English3 q6 s! }$ U" B6 C: H0 v
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ F' k& O% W# b qplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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4 K9 [/ K q1 j$ xIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# W6 H" t U/ y* j4 K7 Lthe sivil servants jump with joy.( `% t! M, E( t* V2 c! o5 U7 U
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: u+ s4 u8 y6 L' U' |konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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: g4 X0 q! R' s1 f# V5 ~, U; @There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# Y8 }' }0 b) j* T% A$ m; m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 Z; p: }/ ~ { R( Zfotograf 20% shorter.
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- Z( h% a$ a' J' T' \8 P2 a, k3 H2 jIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 c& ]" ^& O" l5 Zreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 d+ i9 c0 }$ o" J
ben a deterent to akurate speling." ~1 R$ ]- Q7 P9 u! [& k. n
; q) D- P4 F7 Z7 m( r6 BAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
' d1 a7 S0 U% G. x x' Zdisgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with7 L% v) ^+ W$ M" y2 c) p. u2 y
"z" and "w" with "v".; R$ P- t' D7 }& F
* b) {) G8 b) @4 c" q9 QDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- Z2 f% H; c4 D# ?+ T" X7 Yafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 H- r+ F2 u) }( r$ H# {, s
( H F! c# |; ]; ?& r- XZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
& w3 K6 l3 i& Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
L4 R3 |/ g( n' zUnd 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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