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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English( ~4 L1 Y! M7 D/ Z$ F6 d( j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in! Z. O; U a! i5 e m$ j0 B
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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8 A4 N( o a7 M) s" H% r) GIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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) |9 O" Y: o; }- s8 ZThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up' S! m8 {* L: D3 q
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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! \# q' B& m1 X& e* [There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; u4 A- \: d7 w- W, ]( z. }
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# ]. p. I4 u& ]+ f# F# Mfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
; r3 z; |0 e( C& b) S5 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- u! W% D0 G- d6 N# ]. D T
! P( x" Q: E" \& w7 {/ `, ~- `# fGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! K$ T1 S. h2 T$ J- k# H. O
ben a deterent to akurate speling.# ^. L* w) M" D O
5 U- p* x# X& FAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is( l e4 q3 ^3 s2 M+ H3 h4 Z0 y. p
disgrasful and it should go away. Z2 `: t" H0 h& V+ ?, h% ?4 n
s! O3 l* I% k2 [! ]By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with( P/ p F$ [/ H: z, p3 g
"z" and "w" with "v".2 z, ?" K; C2 d# d$ @
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and1 a4 n1 G. }# p/ @
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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; w( A6 ^( V6 c; k9 X; WZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu% W6 z# G7 q+ q: ^! G4 @
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ \8 Q& [4 j' h D( R/ G+ |
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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& u1 v1 p7 [ N; H% r! Z& \2 g; R; S, HIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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