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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 English
- N6 S& x* X9 D. w aspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
3 F2 d& q6 e. G8 s' }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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# ?0 W8 Z) ?. L5 jThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ A" X- L, |% i/ @0 l' o
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the0 [/ B! E/ V/ \3 b
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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) C3 [8 E, ^( ]% l% P* eGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is+ E: w5 W' _& U T3 U, {
disgrasful and it should go away.
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$ u) A u+ F5 y, H" d) sBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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9 V) r* Y% J# q& }) Y3 _5 f* R# IDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and; |6 @* z7 |. a6 ~2 h& x
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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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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