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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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1 y3 d3 s1 i8 Z4 h4 OAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English2 X# \" ^4 L# k* n
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* M$ x0 L6 C( N H2 Y, i
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".& Z8 @1 [5 ^! d
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
' [. P7 _9 o: g% K& u/ ckonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the& A" G* ]! _! G
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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: d0 g! q- }- @3 E+ M3 x- t" ?5 kIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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" [7 d& G. c9 P8 f2 `6 B+ MGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always% `& b# @4 @0 H5 M' P0 t" z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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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& i( a- S1 S4 d6 K W( Q; b, {
"z" and "w" with "v".
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7 y2 m' q1 |* o2 Z9 @3 XDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
& v6 Y, u! S* G" B6 a( kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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. v1 v# h+ s+ D$ n& q$ ?+ s4 J8 b! \Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu: d; j# E0 |4 T3 A9 n- d
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ o0 d/ Q9 _8 l: K. L5 `- I
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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