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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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1 d' C1 T4 |$ \, P" ]the other possibility.
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4 Y# a( z- G3 D* RAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English. C' F9 o3 |, x& F
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. K- R1 s% P2 M9 F2 {6 J N5 mplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".1 k, t! m3 v2 z. K/ u) b" ~, [
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ u$ w$ R8 }# ?/ Z
the sivil servants jump with joy., ?8 P5 ~7 P, p; n. l
9 E! \# b7 [3 Q, G, O. T. g& f/ hThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% l3 i" {' y0 g. _$ O6 Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 G+ a2 \& [5 e/ B# f0 ^troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- X6 N! t# h' G/ D) f2 B, g! h
fotograf 20% shorter.
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; z9 \2 Q' o& y1 l# ~9 MIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ C" H t. N; k4 ]8 dreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 `/ W9 R7 y( p' G
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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* x& d ~/ [3 B; J- h$ lAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. z2 V3 Z; O1 {0 X1 S, ydisgrasful and it should go away.9 m; k3 F# y. A* N# b, b6 v
9 G/ l5 q5 W$ r6 e8 [- jBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( }: @7 W! O- N% A
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
+ d& C* W7 I0 ]/ [3 K- e5 z$ e& y; F# aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., K) Y8 Y1 N! k. f) K
" O7 e2 x. Q/ f: q9 B5 PZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu/ ] n6 w" h. s, a- c. L" V+ v) s: b/ a
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 M) e9 ?7 X; D7 D3 qUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze) w2 y \5 J; V7 R5 W6 x' G
forst plas.8 p6 \2 A5 M, N& S
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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