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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
* m+ W/ N: x- l3 lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ X0 [: @0 r F# P2 Z6 ]5 K$ B# a; x
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".0 J6 i; \" P {; R$ x8 E4 V6 }0 K
' ?! F* o H: ?In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make l& w9 x4 U/ @% ]' Q+ j( u, A
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
5 E' D3 P7 R6 ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. U" ?: G4 H, Q" S. d, G
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
0 U9 S3 F" d% L& C2 [3 {troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" ], O9 I( k8 z: h/ H5 P2 r& E
fotograf 20% shorter.
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8 J" I4 C) }( o2 LIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
9 Q4 Y) { L6 Hreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.* b' J( f: o9 j O" t& U* J
! l6 x6 l1 L3 j! k9 y/ g' @" y( rGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
' T6 E1 F T5 k8 Uben a deterent to akurate speling.4 M9 E0 O8 r7 a i7 w+ L. j; X
( y8 t( [; l3 V, Z0 u/ eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
. i# _' w/ p! i! b* udisgrasful and it should go away.8 ^5 X( u# O" r8 N3 d
) O7 y$ s1 B: S8 S' PBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
5 c; Q0 o4 a: q4 z"z" and "w" with "v"." }' N/ W9 _! _9 I5 S
/ `& _0 `$ c, d' j7 J! dDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, {2 U- V- c# ~1 y/ l' Q7 Uafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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! T% h# O5 ?4 W W9 P$ eZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 b/ l9 o4 X0 S6 y) L
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.' ~( m) @1 Z% i& a: ~
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 f7 D9 P6 z: z+ N
forst plas.
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* G; T6 N: P/ ~( G# ?If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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