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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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3 [( B A, R) |+ w* vAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
" X# M' x6 ?: Q3 h, Kspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" g& v7 t& g* t0 v/ bplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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& b3 n/ W3 E- E( U; ~In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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/ h/ o1 I/ B e+ _The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: _: I1 P$ ~5 g9 J) zkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the( w% n' O! n3 a, z, @
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
c- ^; H! r6 X$ h% ufotograf 20% shorter.
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$ z/ j4 R3 c. y' EIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# @% R) X$ a4 a/ q
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- U0 {8 g1 W- g' I1 P: _; k
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
& u! `" d1 H6 [; T. T' C7 C; ndisgrasful and it should go away.( {- U8 o8 Q8 K" }( F7 X6 c
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with; V; m% J+ D8 b
"z" and "w" with "v".
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8 D& q8 u% z2 M' w j$ }9 YDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and0 k+ q6 I" G2 B2 p0 ]
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.8 u8 I& q. J' \8 \5 E, l) s
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
( z6 M( k, D8 N- Q0 J: q6 Qunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: d P8 \! m2 ]- I9 P! vUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze6 B$ I; F: R. b% N% _
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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