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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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+ y3 b4 s$ Y+ r' uAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" Q m/ Q! N, C+ D6 i) I6 O+ Xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" S4 M/ U" G" ~6 h" T) X* G) L- y
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
6 j7 F! |! D9 R* nthe sivil servants jump with joy.% c6 b9 [) r5 {9 X& U. u
5 J s$ `, S& ? R+ gThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ f& F6 p! r4 D. H- ~
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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& H( h' x7 h$ X/ K) }' M+ `There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 h& G: [3 w4 K: ^; H0 k/ ]5 T- qtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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( s1 K2 v& n" F+ q4 VIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, x% v& n; p8 ?% u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.: G* u% O( N- v
# o* |7 l* h3 F" Y' q) }Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- I0 ~" e. k M
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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1 E0 U2 u8 Y, n9 L8 Z D: H3 gAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
$ o5 D3 v: S% s7 \disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 T. y! Z+ `6 F7 H8 _' `! B0 oBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with* n' e: G$ P: W6 y3 g0 v1 u' a; r
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and" E1 k6 l* F0 r5 f# {- |+ i
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.2 S+ u4 Q) {- o+ _8 H* \
0 d/ J4 t( |/ `, C: v! Z; A7 eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu; H, h9 ~; o. Q
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.8 ^; {; F0 j$ B; ^
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! }, ?* } r2 ?* e6 `. F+ b
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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