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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, M6 |2 J, x" G5 {, I3 h) b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in8 a: _& y8 ~. n: S, d1 Z! E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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$ f5 D% a: P; A6 K4 V5 v4 kIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make# K: S+ \# g3 J5 s5 A9 y9 D
the sivil servants jump with joy.0 N; X/ U( D8 c, F( D- I* q
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. i2 J, z7 y* t P5 i
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; c( m0 m9 M5 [) {
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$ N; d/ f% \6 W, Y9 k) iThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ m. N) m5 e, D! s' _
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like5 N# a! H+ b& Y! `
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! }" H. M) c& [0 d3 h- _+ Y
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible." ?" O: y: P7 G2 ]7 `% F
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" S4 O7 C% e6 D( g! h
ben a deterent to akurate speling.7 b; X# t# v: W k+ w
; A% g& {# M# V7 kAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& m; `3 f+ @ P9 ^
disgrasful and it should go away.9 O$ w" e" l: Q \9 M5 c
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with, [3 {& H: ]- n7 n6 o9 _
"z" and "w" with "v".
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& q1 D2 g5 B7 z, L* A+ w" YDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% e: y7 y9 w8 ~+ J5 n0 u; Y5 p
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
4 G" C7 }3 A6 J7 ^& V, {8 R0 Yunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
, V H- E" N9 y; P+ HUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* Y) k8 W' g+ A f% J7 ?
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+ P9 k# v* \$ [; {2 ?5 h) `If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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