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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
3 G1 ~& R( Z2 ]# W7 @( f; hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
$ }- C: d; J0 W l' Vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* I `6 } {. g* l+ v8 k1 ?
the sivil servants jump with joy.; T: h. V/ E, `2 J2 l$ u/ }
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 T! p3 K1 q! t$ v* W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( J3 g/ i( l- q4 \2 WThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the! U" ]" V6 @4 N
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
: _2 J# ] \+ @6 _& Yreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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" d1 y& E. P/ u) f, q1 D7 UGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always* }0 @7 v8 e* |. h8 x' T! m8 F
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
# K7 a' S6 _& `) Ldisgrasful and it should go away.5 h$ g1 O' a& g4 K' H
% `" j2 b8 c6 s4 y- e" y2 SBy 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
1 q! W' Q3 d1 O( z; \after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 J& p4 [- X! M* o
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
* r- V0 F5 Q8 U6 v+ w& B6 ~ |Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 s1 Y% ?- o' W/ T/ U1 \5 {
forst plas.
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# ^8 s8 v* Z t! P( r* T/ ?1 X p4 V8 zIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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