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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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+ Y0 f- Z1 f' k# K; f2 o/ FAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English' l) Q' X. V5 a# J. o
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in; u! A6 `5 |$ w
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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( b. ?+ N) T8 V7 J# W' _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up( E- y2 B: l/ x$ Q) [7 z# I9 L4 e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. L2 Y; ? g- h$ C1 ^$ e, n
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. Y- o/ x5 I7 E6 l4 PThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 O; p2 F7 d8 D- A2 M7 z, F" dtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 }( K) j" Y1 W, C8 \' z: [
fotograf 20% shorter.7 x# c2 r g# j. s, {0 Y* P
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to" F* o y. s; D7 g
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
4 e' I8 l) l5 ~7 W: ]2 Bben a deterent to akurate speling.
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: p3 m. j# q( G3 q; f( q) I5 HAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& c, [( b( w7 I' n' X
disgrasful and it should go away.
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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"and6 ]6 P+ `$ @5 @9 ~* Q! `* r8 P! H' a
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 `4 W' p, k% _1 p" c" k( ]% {; Q
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' G- h- n( E2 o3 n9 C. {* a" I
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ w+ @2 G# C0 C3 o3 Z, v
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 u! {( ?, l! P+ G% V3 s- [: q) @If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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