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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
% p3 H8 S3 H/ B9 ~spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( [1 _ \' T3 S F: z+ R& Uplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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, N2 k2 C& m. N5 zIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make& j8 ~4 H2 Y3 A& C
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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& U. H9 l/ `' i0 ?/ `9 e7 }The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ {3 [3 Z* `0 d. k Fkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: N/ P6 ^; v. c: P5 ]) t' Z
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ i& [. m' b6 k3 Q# L
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, b. L% a" l% ]- @$ Jfotograf 20% shorter.3 d0 `- q" ?3 c
. u7 l8 V! `5 J, x* ?6 wIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
( g, F, X' _& R6 @6 b4 \* l" ureach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.- w1 f5 ~3 R9 s2 K$ D+ C/ {; c
( B) m/ @# x, E1 O4 a8 MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always6 H* d2 x: }; w5 y6 A
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 b! {) _. C3 }& L. E9 e
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is0 J T2 J" ]: h" ~/ W
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% S7 o& ], M F' _- W
"z" and "w" with "v"., ]/ y$ U8 @+ [. e+ ]
1 Z2 x3 x# j9 E' Q0 z9 s# PDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and5 n4 r) h! u4 B" p
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! O' H5 ?) P H# r1 V
5 _ L9 a+ a# T IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
' }; c* a. _$ F' q% T* R( E; @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 E; _8 K* h; c6 ]# p/ _4 N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze$ z( z% y1 F( o
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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