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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English1 R5 T5 b# W8 r0 S! o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. }! ^; U; w8 {8 Q% \plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make9 t8 n. u' B1 m6 Z9 X8 Q8 }$ L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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# s; u N3 S* ^6 bThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ `: p+ i- H: Y5 o6 n
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.5 m( V. X: U$ S6 o: ^) p' p2 B2 x
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u [4 \1 Q0 t; w' g/ m* `& TThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ {1 k2 N8 E, F- g
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
9 s* V) t1 N& g, ]! o$ y" N/ Zfotograf 20% shorter.2 y5 A9 [8 a/ b5 j: G" p
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* X1 T2 b$ s" t$ j% `2 x+ ^6 Sreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.4 k1 j. ~9 v' j. P6 c! a0 `, ]5 D/ c
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 f& V; }! ]; _6 U+ W
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 ?' T* u% t. S! o. MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is' Q! N/ l4 I3 ]7 s d; ?
disgrasful and it should go away.
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! A7 c: g/ G0 u& z2 HBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with6 P' e* [) D1 D& v+ q
"z" and "w" with "v". `, g" p- W& Z T, c
, j6 b7 X. G0 o. d* {& JDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
e' ~4 b# o' y% Z! y" f8 n, G2 Rafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.) K+ u( r, B1 V, v5 T4 A
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: ]; n* Y U2 o$ N: y- w: p5 Z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
% ]( l+ B9 U3 a8 C7 s* xUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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