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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 English7 G" } P$ H: W8 K; \
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" |2 I1 y3 I7 n! \' R& \' D
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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7 O$ e3 N: ]% `6 q% H; ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
' O' ]( |: {+ `! pthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' _( Z$ S7 M: I$ x( ?konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the- u8 W* o6 |/ f A4 b
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like# T$ a: n! y- W% Y6 O& a
fotograf 20% shorter.; {- r9 y- l3 F0 ]+ V$ A5 c
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to6 v/ G6 K/ x# p4 s$ T/ `
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* c4 f) C+ I1 t5 A
+ } D# }5 z T3 [Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- P; i# Q l- P+ @
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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5 s" v# x& y2 |6 n" W; N, MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 \2 y8 J9 f! k8 E. F2 G5 tdisgrasful and it should go away.9 b$ _/ Q" i' H _, O( f7 L D# i) V
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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0 O" _3 F5 z3 C; ?7 n. q% z- L* ]( NDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and9 Q: I2 t5 s- r3 i/ k, ?" T
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 v% f) y# M1 J6 }$ \
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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