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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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3 L" g8 X8 U" K6 o, K F& PAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 @: m9 H( E }- r n7 H Aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in2 n' `" V' f7 }2 {. q
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".( z2 }& r& b Y6 S$ Z* ^ R
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make, U0 N' s/ X$ _: w. W H
the sivil servants jump with joy.8 h5 W T+ X/ l. {
0 k8 ~( F o% d7 i7 jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* U! q1 e) h# {$ b+ ]3 d
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., m+ r( R5 j7 y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
4 M7 [ o8 |4 E, ztroublesome "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
: _/ Q$ E4 }& D2 t: m: k; ?1 }reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is; H& j4 k, W( w" p# m
disgrasful and it should go away.6 ^( v D1 e: C8 L d r7 D" y+ b& r
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! n0 r4 u+ q- d* r0 i. {0 J0 {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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" _- Q5 Q. B( y! nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. E1 @2 J; X0 p$ b; ~9 b5 ~5 aafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.$ Y- E& `; A# a, f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
! |7 p' r' ]/ V4 Z, k& Munderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: }" K/ o" |6 ]0 C/ Z6 \4 JUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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. c! k6 O3 q$ R, G* YIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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