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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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1 M y+ ?' t- k1 D& ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
! p7 @/ ?: `: @( ~' yspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* [, `1 T) b7 b& z
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 e1 B( q* D, ~7 ]( T# m, I
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 V# m i+ S R& I+ E5 p$ Q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.1 m' X1 h8 H, L8 x* x
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; i2 ^: ]. S3 ~0 V$ u" ?3 `
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
' B7 C( J" F9 G( m$ efotograf 20% shorter.# [8 m) ^1 _: k) b" ^- l$ u! ^
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to1 p/ R4 j5 g) T5 p; y4 I5 V
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 A1 M7 a$ N4 {8 M4 I0 a# n1 c( _
( i3 Y4 ^4 p; b/ R4 d6 LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always @( w. K) k2 _* A4 P+ {' _
ben a deterent to akurate speling.& L9 b/ T7 P6 j, m Q( o! C3 V
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( S2 {; ?2 e9 H+ J3 t2 k* ]! ~disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ N2 n" u5 z& S, _By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with) X8 Y5 U& V+ U8 i! E$ k* i4 d
"z" and "w" with "v".6 k! c7 a* l5 o
# K+ `0 C! T# @" K) @2 dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 _3 {! o9 H5 W1 j& z: j. Hafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., |1 a% E K9 q/ {
# x3 e$ }7 U( f; _. H' q' S% mZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 j/ G) y6 O1 P9 ]
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru./ b8 D: I2 K* d9 {( U6 r' G8 s
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze; S% J3 M. L; I
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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