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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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r* S5 V* i" v7 F' C/ W8 z0 q) ~As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English$ r8 b. P, a2 H" o9 b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in, W" I; @) h3 y" ^( b
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 f; q K H$ |" K* g1 x7 _3 C$ [
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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: M4 Y0 x0 R; c. vThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 W$ C3 w9 ]3 r- }* [) A2 F5 r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- ]: a9 c0 j* Q8 u$ Z' s
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like0 A g4 u5 k5 m( R, o" n! Y
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 S' e+ D3 F9 J/ z B8 F
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.$ U/ x8 @2 o2 i6 r
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! A+ C! Z* P9 ^ ], P1 H8 p7 l
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) k; E+ q x) p! j8 c
disgrasful and it should go away.& H7 F; J2 x) D5 d
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
0 ~6 `- R9 _8 H' _5 T. {"z" and "w" with "v".
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, l9 {+ x: D% q7 ~, S+ aDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. x; M: B# N/ bafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 \ O/ V- N( A5 f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. \8 G1 G* \$ a) @, aunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.% N$ M, w( t0 Q/ K& K+ Q5 U
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 m7 p) w3 x; A$ o
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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