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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 English
7 F3 A: y* p3 W7 V6 uspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
+ t7 z; X0 ^* ?' x5 w* Hplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." }* W6 ]6 A% m% h: N6 ?( M' j
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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! R4 e1 H, v- v+ F4 W) J8 d' ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' N% t& S; A% S6 {konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ X9 `+ U; v" I- N$ K
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the8 {/ Z! y j4 T6 a9 W
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# B9 Y, Z l, T/ V. J+ A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
% K9 ~- F6 n1 H. T9 B5 |disgrasful and it should go away.
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- X$ S5 m; L% J% U7 `" v# x; hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with4 V+ B b/ ]& e: Q% \* Q$ s4 c* B
"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and ?5 E! ^7 _- l m, D% U. m8 s$ S
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* A5 C# M/ q* [5 F2 a2 Z, f
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu4 ]4 ~1 Z8 r5 }" y# I) P! P2 R3 m
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
" M) L: `" o6 j+ bUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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6 q# R3 T* B$ H7 d5 b4 Q' N3 E4 QIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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