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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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* f6 D( X1 l3 O. y; O QAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" T% z4 y5 M9 xspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 R% w- I* J! N uplan 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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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ s7 T; R' Q. v
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the# u5 B3 \+ p! k' U0 L P! m9 o- l
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like4 g1 _) \6 X/ W) j" C* v) |: j
fotograf 20% shorter./ {* R1 a6 C* Y* x# a
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
* ]8 _7 G) J" Y/ t. Y* F3 |reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments 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 |7 B7 ^! K, {2 U. e
disgrasful and it should go away.: Y# H( d; z8 V" s5 k" O8 w
1 z3 P) P( p2 g0 T' V( v1 f! OBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
+ n( V) d5 Z* A"z" and "w" with "v".
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( g P2 B3 H" _! hDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ B, d& P$ w1 z2 \1 h! F, {
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.! q9 J* O3 S0 c& p. u9 d
' V1 A1 u* z3 IZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
l. c( c( D: N: O- A3 X/ `$ }understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
2 b0 @" v5 S- L |5 [5 H8 \0 zUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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4 @, M, j+ ~8 b6 JIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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