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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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6 g; m% |! M. ]& G t" t# ]the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
$ O* u" J) N0 n1 L1 Vspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
* k4 `$ B' w4 o- x+ r( D) Eplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- i; k8 m3 X$ ?& C
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make; `9 {. V6 o( N! K0 X1 T, i+ {
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
7 l' v2 K8 \+ [4 m- ]. q7 j9 Mkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the+ ^' S" k* c- t$ p' o) K# H
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like; g/ ?0 M! H B/ H [6 D7 ?
fotograf 20% shorter.
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( y3 I6 e0 H! _ F" C# ^3 X; ?; ]In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 q' z# c# e" _& l8 H \3 Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always5 }5 L$ j. _3 \
ben a deterent to akurate speling.5 f7 g* v6 Q8 L( r; n* u0 V' ?
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is) s: G' [" x- f7 y/ q! o1 u& T
disgrasful and it should go away.: H5 ?9 K& B3 f1 S* ]9 c1 Z
. F0 @2 i) n: e v$ C; {7 y& q& {By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with& h n8 m* U3 P1 D
"z" and "w" with "v".* P+ \2 Q$ K- w3 y
8 Y: q" ^0 m8 d1 @, e7 @During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
- o3 _% P/ h, Z; a8 O7 r! Gafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.- U/ r; ~9 @7 r+ v* e0 T2 P3 o
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
% T9 |# I& [4 J: ~4 X/ v( D1 I" I3 H9 Punderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
! a- a2 j% B$ H MUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 B: [, W( }' O' N( c5 b$ _; P1 d
forst plas.
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