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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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7 w" }' A8 c, X/ zAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ t8 Z6 y) o, {8 V' E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in' M) ~/ Y% K1 u) H5 Z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." m: H! k' z2 c9 c/ ]/ H
6 F0 ]6 y9 R3 j9 ZIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 F0 Z( x d {/ i$ v" A$ F0 M
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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" y( `7 F j/ r5 rThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 {9 @) K& j- l2 h' Z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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3 c- o4 |5 s% }' W6 W0 wThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( P9 _* i- p0 A+ I+ @% r# j
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like6 P9 T* A+ }" g* V
fotograf 20% shorter.9 n. X2 f x2 L- x- q$ S
3 P4 w% `% S- W. {0 nIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( n6 u. X3 }) ?6 z/ X& ]! l! G- mreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
2 h# R- J* u1 X" vben a deterent to akurate speling.
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* Y9 x N" R9 \' n2 [! x- N0 E/ CAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
5 v7 R7 p- i) _1 O; x& `) N. Edisgrasful and it should go away./ G$ w7 l. u# w/ w/ m: }. g# k
3 S; O8 P& x2 Y- o9 gBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 D8 B: R2 i8 [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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, N3 P8 A9 @: M9 S9 MZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu3 A% v; f% }4 X
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
# E" ]$ o2 N! C0 D' K IUnd 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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