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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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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English5 m& P6 |5 o: |2 G" ]2 U
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in0 a" c! E+ r3 V7 X
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
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/ B5 W, k- N( \The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up/ ]/ ]# S2 C8 M. z
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.: \$ g5 k* i/ [& l
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6 f* P! u7 E+ x% M' g) JThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the2 W( Y/ I1 @8 C" v4 H Y2 ~
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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3 B2 P- `* L8 _$ XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
' r1 K; p- v h6 |7 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always2 w3 a; {! s5 E0 ^4 U% Z8 R
ben a deterent to akurate speling.; t6 j) l+ F8 \! d4 k1 i+ z0 ]
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% U4 z% ]7 O) \7 u
"z" and "w" with "v".
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# Z) t6 P* @1 `" p8 BDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and8 ~6 ]# ~ E% E5 p* ?
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.* \+ Y" \- o7 Y* y% a, f [
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 R7 f7 ]7 O$ Q/ E* e
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
0 ]& F6 D* c0 z* R' t$ FUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze3 V Q! g) m9 u& v. u
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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