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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 o! _; B9 t7 P5 G. t* \7 p0 aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in/ ^8 Y9 E6 X3 r( B1 v( ~) S* j
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 R# G: T h5 e6 _% ~# z
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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% ]" N2 y7 @* b, I" oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up j( o; k1 z$ f3 `: p6 `
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
" J n" u( J! z! ~8 ]1 q0 N' ftroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
2 s/ \ [; _3 I% y! d' \6 D+ ffotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& c. m: ~( N9 i. f8 H3 _
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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I: P+ [5 a0 zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always. M. v% p T& d& _* @9 Z7 L* E
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 is3 a4 M( k7 y3 @. f" p, x& d" s
disgrasful and it should go away.& A$ [6 f: b# G; a' I, {, H+ z" h
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By 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
* Q1 o- Y! `0 @/ m/ O, m" j$ Pafter 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 tu
: ]- e& s% d3 Cunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.7 `0 Z! M' i: W: E
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze+ Y$ d, x+ _9 u% U! D4 @7 b
forst plas.
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