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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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5 M3 h" C+ N+ H' G N' mAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English7 ]' e& b9 N9 f" K. C$ v2 k3 a, m
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in" @0 c0 e* Q1 B7 [& K+ e9 s
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".$ R( [" d: m' Q8 w4 H
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* C, U& ]7 c2 L
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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* G6 V( b- i5 UThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
: p5 i; S& d' _1 b+ n2 l. ^konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter., \+ P4 ~3 a( O+ F7 Y+ a4 F
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" |4 N! }- G8 @; b7 hThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the4 F+ k, x2 w. Y9 ^4 x5 e
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like1 ^1 Y2 y2 {$ _+ |2 m
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to4 s6 J- G# X2 V$ Z! z; o4 `5 L& g2 i7 N
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always) y5 S9 M% ^6 S, n
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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# I2 q7 `3 P$ L6 eAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 \8 K! Z% l6 p
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.. V) e% B( V# ~! u* L+ S+ D
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: s% g% w# t8 ^/ ^! V4 }. w q. ]understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: `4 b4 Q# Z- F7 `8 ~( L+ dUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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7 |6 N/ ]4 k2 f& wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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