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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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2 f% h/ A$ _" Y) B# k& f- @: M9 HAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English- C7 I! D* Z0 O/ w$ ^/ S1 k: N
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
& T0 K' Z& t- G+ Y- N8 fplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
$ u$ f" ^- L* m' A8 F p6 Hthe sivil servants jump with joy.: s. N( A7 i9 @- y9 a
8 ], @1 |# Z' w5 ^/ uThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
# Q, N: @) a3 D" |5 s, hkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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5 C3 F7 ?7 ]- f- M+ u: Y6 F ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) ~& S( C. f5 G! J$ ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
( W& k: m& N8 e& w, K$ E# j: R# Ofotograf 20% shorter., i, S' `. l2 x& O L, J2 K' r0 H8 A0 G
# b/ ?/ B, B, j( r& ` t! wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 G7 W% k- k- R: l2 F* f) J
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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; V, m( i# `* M0 |Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always, U' D; T( d, I, Q$ b/ @6 x
ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 L: x' C2 d' W& i( Z6 t9 F& |4 p% [8 \
; r+ g! w( m2 `6 P# rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% ~. \3 L2 g7 R8 {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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and' r. l4 |7 O; c ?) M3 T# z1 C( P
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., `* H: h* ~; I+ F$ \/ G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 n1 t. K0 \* Punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
) b! n# G" C0 ?( o# kUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze0 H/ Y0 P$ D7 M; G( Q
forst plas.
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7 |9 y' {; g3 I; ]: FIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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