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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.! M5 F- P/ @5 R' e% S% k$ T
, q' A3 N2 K {0 b' b0 W% @, E1 eAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English/ M& H9 F& `3 o! Q
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in: R3 `; ~* m+ B0 P6 I
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." K4 N$ }$ h/ J5 ]+ ?
, U) O" S5 ~( yIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! m1 U! T" v. k$ ^0 X. ~$ N
the sivil servants jump with joy. X8 Y( A& N' a3 x# x: |- u% y
% U4 ]3 ~7 F4 L& V' U& X' r: nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 O, k& t% R) f/ Jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.- ~: K' V/ c- g H* U ]: a
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the: T" }) g+ g# ~) P$ b
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 n' r# f/ _ @ }0 Ffotograf 20% shorter.
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( P5 V. F" X, n1 Y$ \" a; [! ^- D' qIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) k* K# k$ l6 E% k+ X
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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. s& t) v* j8 T* ?Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: s: V6 `# X0 j# W% I
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 J% q4 a* V+ IAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is! ~& o0 _+ ^6 O" e4 }- i/ N
disgrasful and it should go away.. ?6 T4 V0 w' A
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with2 x+ {& ]/ C# x4 O; d/ Y3 o$ T
"z" and "w" with "v".
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# q; ]5 j) x# B+ y' ^6 p. o8 b1 @. FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and. k% e3 S0 {& F3 Q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 U5 h6 i- @ u7 @$ _4 b5 p9 b# d" v: }$ _
+ c$ n& a8 `; S' xZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 w3 V2 L+ Q3 a. D9 nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
+ n$ q/ U+ g' z j6 F$ hUnd 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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