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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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# v7 c$ {1 k. ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English% h$ q2 B! y2 f1 e- C0 g+ g
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 p1 @' Y3 l, b2 l$ c/ M; ~* G
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 I" o) A+ H; Z
the sivil servants jump with joy.5 o& p/ C' ^$ c" E3 H
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
9 b4 ]8 S; h# o1 ztroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like- I+ F7 ~ f, k) C& e& ~
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 U; r t) d2 R' @7 h" ~# Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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$ X$ a$ G8 h. a4 B+ {& A' B) \Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
U5 z' _2 Z: I! ]ben a deterent to akurate speling.: ?/ @" I* [! ^! _
' f" E" E' {. T; e* {Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
0 S* K6 x8 n1 Edisgrasful and it should go away.5 D' v# T" v9 O
- B# m/ u6 ~4 b) Y: p8 QBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
6 d% j) h) ^; T0 e" |"z" and "w" with "v".
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. C7 R* [& m2 Y" A& x1 v8 k8 { Vafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.7 Y. t8 [' X" C% D& `; W
& z# S7 g8 ~2 ?Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu8 x- N+ ^9 i o c0 I0 r
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
/ L5 x* {0 L% WUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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+ z+ @& { ~. gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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