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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
/ Q' i w" j% K! B ~6 fspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" _# t7 t/ b! A- T7 O4 G. jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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/ |: ^" ^/ b# J* XIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make+ I7 t! z v5 `4 u& c9 d' N+ w
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up c6 ~5 @! Q6 | w# r& ?0 Q, W
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ [/ s7 L7 j4 L, ?
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
% |! o' x" N; E; J C6 {troublesome "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
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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. x1 o1 j$ u' @( t# Q; R SAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ r9 }& I4 |7 }! w6 _4 _3 Q
disgrasful and it should go away./ g% f$ A$ a) _
, R9 G! S E0 O8 l" mBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with5 A1 i! q' I2 m# C: S7 h
"z" and "w" with "v".1 W( `# b7 p7 y. ~4 e
9 J$ a2 \7 L5 fDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- w `9 t# g1 j! ?8 i' W% [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* g7 K) M" w6 s6 E& V, O
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu" L* @' F q1 x3 E, t7 {
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
$ T6 J) C& @* ^9 N' t8 w" v3 \Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 ^7 }1 X7 u2 o# a ^/ C) V
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