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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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) R% S4 P- C; Y) V) HAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
% h2 f6 l0 b4 ?1 L B* M7 t8 zspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in4 k v5 \3 `/ [. Q2 \' {! {5 t
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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* e" B( W5 s9 s" V2 rIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
+ [- f% C+ z8 b$ F' J Nthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
+ D( j7 x C/ g$ P: X* E, w) pkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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( I% t" O& D2 CThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 h( m6 L- ^+ R, A; y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" n- H1 n: z1 g0 U; c" h; Q7 zfotograf 20% shorter.
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, G: k1 g5 e4 rIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to$ d4 m; s7 p( R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
, Z/ {, a# ?+ ?' X2 [' ]1 g1 |ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 c! t6 h" D1 }6 n4 y
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( t7 f4 E) T0 R- ^disgrasful and it should go away.3 |: @5 R7 ]0 D* r6 `$ _
4 ~1 n6 f3 J3 `- o$ G YBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* Z$ E0 R& C! J* E7 p9 }
"z" and "w" with "v".
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: @6 Q6 U5 w% PDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" W$ A2 w# A% P/ b5 x2 C# l
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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: u: e0 V8 R2 e3 q9 rZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
0 t% o1 R* z X3 d2 dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.( X& g% g$ U2 ]0 S
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze7 e5 U& g5 ]5 D
forst plas.
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, z" _5 N; ~! Y: _4 M0 _If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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