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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
3 J8 b3 _, q5 S1 hspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 R9 S: I2 U% |% P- @5 H8 T7 p( aplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make! V+ T* R7 W& P) f/ p
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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. _% o: m/ r7 n7 N0 ]The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* S( R8 }1 o2 F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
|0 ?5 d" @2 Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
5 j' ]( l5 y v, f9 C E2 P" ifotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to, |+ m( @; i' ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always: Q, k# V# T+ \% T" b" L
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 is0 j" u/ s+ W& W6 U3 Y) B1 i
disgrasful and it should go away.
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5 d1 o g s9 H, uBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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) z% C6 e' d m4 [1 E# UDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and+ x/ @; T& h# b& o$ K8 [4 _
after 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( ]# s7 M5 g, Y' }6 c, o
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
& @! n! P5 K: Q. GUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze( l8 h( e: x+ v- I- A( y
forst plas.
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; k9 M' ?. o. P7 u- E; D+ MIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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