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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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7 ~+ }% k( {3 {! {* `/ ~As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English+ u+ U. V6 [* F Y) V
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
U o/ c6 v# X) p! zplan 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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1 ]9 T; o! g& k% J+ q1 N' C. K) d' {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up; F, P! G3 |: s r
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' g' ]# h3 Z: B. j8 d& `' L/ I1 YThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the3 w8 y* [' z2 @; @* w5 y
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like: t+ L8 r$ p$ Z3 l# E
fotograf 20% shorter.7 k6 }+ k" R- b5 \2 Q
5 X% L7 |9 Z& N9 ?: W+ lIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
. Z9 s- V |8 Oreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.% m' ?+ a5 D/ S3 H+ z
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' ~* o% L* B8 n2 b5 bben a deterent to akurate speling.
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9 [, B; h1 t- h4 z bAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
4 M. b; o3 ^( s- Q8 R; ]8 Vdisgrasful and it should go away.
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) t- e/ `5 B( h6 q5 \8 BBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ C# e' }2 K% z$ T# x; [0 ?7 m h
"z" and "w" with "v".% V4 [) k9 X' z9 u0 r1 k, k7 G- ^
& j! x7 ~9 V" y7 DDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
5 K; r) G( z0 m6 |# vafter 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 tu
6 j( c) ]/ M& V6 l; g; Lunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.; d) y# U& ~9 ?; S/ }) J/ b. i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze# c1 }5 O# {4 ~9 D" q V
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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