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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
, ]* }, f) m, M; n2 [spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
) w+ L Y4 d7 z0 R8 D6 u7 H: t0 `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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+ W, F3 x) y; d" z7 D, i6 \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
( e5 Z$ S' |+ kkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
7 [6 D3 y2 S3 c3 J7 y9 t6 m5 y- Dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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) {' j4 a3 n" e+ F8 k4 R% EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to8 G8 S+ l) M1 l) E
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.) z6 O+ Y# a( _8 z# u& p ]3 {
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 Y7 F# I6 \0 U& {) L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.1 V! H3 Y- [! j9 f, G
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is$ I" F& V( |! n! [% @4 x* n4 K
disgrasful and it should go away.5 P5 m( f( j0 v) z/ I# f/ W
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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+ ^7 \ F* p9 U. \
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 tu
1 O* [& C9 @+ O+ uunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 k1 X3 j- k2 ?0 P. LUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" G0 }; b! e! j2 E( y! E
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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