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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
- @+ U- ]2 H7 b# \, l1 _spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- `7 A; `# l- n* d, U# uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! n0 `/ b) |# y0 k; i0 N
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
t6 ~% p& X; `the sivil servants jump with joy.
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6 c' @% O9 p P* KThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* G0 U' i5 ?; w7 c4 H6 Okonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 @, b7 ^. Z& _) m4 h6 s
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: w& l# l" {9 u: bfotograf 20% shorter.0 Z: V4 F9 L. U& v$ F+ \
/ o* w9 j0 H- t8 ?* RIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' c& @/ O7 _4 s: Rreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, w, A5 J* E4 ]# A, A. Z/ t
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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% {0 j9 H: i7 W7 hAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& o: @$ z" |7 tdisgrasful and it should go away.; x; _& i/ A. v& |2 s8 r, Q- P9 g
/ H: p9 N, Y% WBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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" @: y2 I4 }# q$ ODuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and R. G5 U* {/ ~4 ^
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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4 {2 p7 W& t' V6 ^4 y* M4 d; cZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
w2 Y& y) B) A' Q9 Hunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
; L0 T7 X4 W0 s; MUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ z* _; K* l$ b( X, D4 X
forst plas.
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$ D2 q, `$ e+ @2 t$ n$ i5 W6 UIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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