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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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4 L( I/ |' L1 X% j8 b) X% qAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* f) Z7 M" K/ Z$ x8 |
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 ^+ D2 ]0 |7 A# L5 _: } q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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# i7 ^ D# H0 ?* JThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 G/ B. N& w0 z9 o8 P* N( s i9 _/ P
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ |5 m% D2 a5 e! [
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
) L( e) U' M. a5 o6 T- {fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ `2 @: N+ B) f s4 S5 ]3 `reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" V# K3 V1 l* Y( _2 q; M% B
ben a deterent to akurate speling.- u) U. H" `) I! r, n0 @! [
; l7 N3 T8 H" L/ D/ r+ pAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is" R) f" U; @, Y
disgrasful and it should go away.
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9 U8 x) N. s4 h( `- o2 fBy 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
g; ~1 x& _" T8 P5 M8 Aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ C, V4 R( ?& @4 A
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu t2 \, r: O/ `( Z$ j
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ W! R q1 Z% D$ Z# ^
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 Z6 L m- s, v
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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