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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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* _) f* d7 a5 d2 Q- B" ~0 TAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' V4 A) X# n y* ^" \ V0 g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# Y; M) c0 s4 [% f7 Zplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". A! k0 x/ F2 j# R" K, ~5 Z8 V6 `+ m
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
# u9 S( j/ \5 o+ bthe sivil servants jump with joy.' e3 T; H& m ~- U3 i
2 o3 U( o5 ^. B3 ~+ J, A: b) @+ }1 yThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ L- g7 E7 {7 \, g; _6 skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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! x$ K& x% B# uThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' E! q! Q9 }, j0 }5 H* Q
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
1 q6 e1 ?3 w! P4 L' Q& xfotograf 20% shorter./ H9 Y! M( C! P7 |5 X M0 j
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
3 u* g0 z/ W6 x% Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. p8 k5 u# [% X# u8 r: LGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* s- j2 P2 p4 b5 F4 o3 L6 e- |
ben a deterent to akurate speling. A, |! Q! P% m$ Y
1 n p5 @# _2 x' a8 }) ^Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ l: L( i- K8 |& b. w3 e; Tdisgrasful and it should go away.
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& a1 \0 ?- K6 A" S# oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 l+ V$ `2 m: M2 J- b& n"z" and "w" with "v".* ~8 f4 @* g( T& j# L
9 P, ]4 E0 O& ~/ hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
( O+ s3 _8 @$ Y2 d6 v& N% m9 M$ iafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 x% B) j7 Q7 m; e% G3 \" Z# n/ X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" R: a ^6 g4 C* Uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ f# Z& z" P: b# @! Z2 N$ S" [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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