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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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9 q! ?$ K/ b# DAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English4 C0 D, c2 @6 N% T$ G
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ T7 a' Q3 A7 A: l- jplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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5 o) s# p/ _" a; j9 HIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make3 I _8 |3 O. @( m- j4 k5 f
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
6 H9 z" W! ]( } v+ T; \konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
8 L5 P* S' t" H& J" i: Ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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7 t$ M) G2 {+ B3 N0 E- ?( O) rIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
- e! k, m( ?6 `( W: Ireach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 X/ G4 R1 l0 m4 K6 c
9 N5 t d6 k! h+ J2 dGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always/ h1 [0 q U/ v9 D; t" P9 Q
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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- d5 c- N: n/ h' ~; }" K2 L7 uAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is8 P8 B8 V" [$ j) J
disgrasful and it should go away.% W$ ~% |" h0 F
; p- ~4 G( V. y: x9 }4 M0 O7 lBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with/ l; }* i- @3 R+ C
"z" and "w" with "v".
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! l& V/ @6 q# f: I' g# v3 MDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) ~! M1 P$ c! p3 L3 D! K$ Eafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
. h D8 l/ l* k) T* m# @understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.+ [& o$ F! q( B4 B( L7 Q
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 M' g2 q, r* U. j5 I8 ?
forst plas.
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: e; A6 ~. c( z: w, ?5 u8 ?# jIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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