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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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: I, ?! H# P1 f6 Lthe other possibility.( A- s: B5 b7 A% ?
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
6 {5 t7 k4 W+ a5 [3 U2 D9 s9 Ospelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in9 i( i- `* E, {7 K' i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish". x4 G" u0 U, E5 W
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up A0 r+ @; `' }( n. v+ _$ N. S6 J, g
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.0 B: j" t3 h' a
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8 S* |' T# L: O/ s5 E" m% ?& d4 rThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 r- e$ R+ {/ q* X6 Mtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
# E: r' X0 J1 Z5 e! D6 @8 f0 lfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to% f) L& |0 I3 E1 L9 C
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always! P5 e' z. f) m
ben a deterent to akurate speling.9 J8 N- d4 Y/ I! D. R# e- x
! n# Z2 i3 Z1 r; R/ rAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
+ e. Y8 c: z0 C. y; a( q) s4 Cdisgrasful and it should go away.
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6 Y& T/ v% V( RBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 g& }- V# A* @; Z- i"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and, R, l& t4 g x H2 P
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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" ^# `( y6 C9 @" y& d0 FZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu# w8 G$ z% ]+ g6 T
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
5 _+ T: o) `" {) J8 X; aUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- T) W- G" d' Y! m/ J- y8 r2 u
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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