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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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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: F8 u8 I+ C9 W( l( c. U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- n2 v% x; W2 G
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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
! U |$ @% k$ O5 K3 Y9 Mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.( Q- {; X/ G% `( d4 @( l2 E
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N# \( U1 `$ Z) t8 RThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the' C( O! D* F3 J& ?! H# T8 ?
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like( S( z. }" G2 a& B$ U
fotograf 20% shorter.( N* D6 m* _4 {7 q# e- N# j7 A
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! m$ Z1 v5 n/ M+ f( f4 lreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 ^* w2 m" S. d* o3 d$ z: V7 Qdisgrasful and it should go away.! ?1 i9 I- d7 x% t
$ E6 j* v* W4 O1 iBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
9 d( S$ M F$ }: ?"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 v' S. x' {: Gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., w& [* V4 S4 m9 r1 _, i4 [ h
; `6 L0 F) \: ^+ V* Y/ D3 EZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu2 g1 t2 O7 J7 r9 F5 Y. A
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru., k; [8 U ^, G/ d4 k
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze1 O# I. w6 Z U& `* b( [7 |
forst plas.
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2 G \: ?, K f4 pIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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