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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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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 t7 o- r- D$ D9 p% ]- T+ ~
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. E) F) x [, A; | bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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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 up8 _& J/ F7 V8 A, e# h7 T/ m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the% |& [! @5 v- d, O& D
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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s, Y/ E4 R5 F; OIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
6 g/ |- m6 ?# O/ X ]reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.; ~" ~9 q) z2 F( [! v" Y, N) Y0 _
' B; g% |" }: d3 C1 f! n2 D1 \4 UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 i2 K2 ^1 F2 b) E% |
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 @$ b% a" z. Z+ g# eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is" Z, ?: L9 B; B7 X6 Z; G& |
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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% g0 p/ _( Y: B+ I4 v$ A" GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
3 [! E. t7 T1 A! B. W" k" s+ C& ?, tafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.9 J$ m: t& H0 i0 {
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und 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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