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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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1 u- R6 C, v9 I0 _7 @7 WAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
5 z' K% W: I' \3 S$ i) b9 G8 Uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ ^ B2 P; i8 b5 e+ K* ^plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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4 W0 |6 Z5 S/ \In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
5 v* M/ Y( h; g: v: ]the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
1 m- [( C0 @$ O- Pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
1 i8 N" x8 k% V# }8 h* u/ Ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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1 G" S0 f- t2 j. a0 {" H$ \In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# z8 L3 K* Y4 j1 | U7 d4 l# O! h
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
0 W; s9 n8 `7 b( eben a deterent to akurate speling.
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5 ^2 Z% D. C3 YAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 _( R O* A7 E6 O% D# P
disgrasful and it should go away. w2 ?( {. B8 s5 R
+ |3 R3 V+ n! ]5 M) gBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 p/ F2 _4 |- Z7 E. e& W2 l) @
"z" and "w" with "v".& Z/ t: H, B4 @! R5 d% v+ g
# h6 b1 I$ {3 I1 LDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
8 n5 e7 v; {" @& Zafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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4 X/ n |4 ?3 kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- U5 S: [' h7 i+ x: g# F
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. `. _' D9 q& G
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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