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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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" c' c5 @4 @- r* ]& u7 g9 wAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
1 g- R3 [: k; T7 o Sspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 {) t% t$ C! L7 h% W0 Jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' U) S$ @. F7 o/ k! [( y% Ethe sivil servants jump with joy.
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" {6 m5 N: J! p0 d! r! `( ?The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up0 q! D2 q4 b& m" e! T0 E: G. F, h$ O
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) ?/ P$ }! U Q1 D) D7 k: P: m
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ Q( D9 T/ q" I, G l; u
fotograf 20% shorter." q. E+ s1 l1 t8 `( O- P
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to& A% g# k% b }+ ]. C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.( m% P+ ]" H( W1 t& H
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
; z" i3 K/ B4 Xben a deterent to akurate speling.) [- {6 q# E7 P: y
9 l1 n; z, `4 ?8 i1 s, zAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is* ` q' O8 Q/ X# M* Z. N, Y" T
disgrasful and it should go away.
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3 V4 v* c" u9 P c) DBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
8 q; U3 j+ O% I6 G; P( B' |"z" and "w" with "v".% Z" a6 ^2 A: H1 v( R9 [! q& X! C
' V, y: o. w- r7 {) \- _4 cDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
4 G! m7 J( W& n2 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 tu9 }; ~9 O9 X/ w$ A# I1 y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.. }+ p& t6 E) W1 Q2 l& ]' o
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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$ d4 F5 ?$ ]0 o* z# p5 lIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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