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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
+ }8 S- m5 C. w# D, y2 Dspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 c; r2 Y h8 V* s! Tplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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- V$ ~, M2 E& @- D4 D6 eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the6 q4 K0 z( z1 Q' ~
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like) ^" v a0 @6 C# R9 H+ ]
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to# C' i+ Z$ }" o' ^5 }
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" ?% u/ O) H4 I" E8 a$ q' q: P
ben a deterent to akurate speling. }! p6 n& x# h& f) s7 v& q
3 Y- { a. s! k% fAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is2 I+ e* P* R( S- I: Y
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! g+ a# y! G$ k S9 a
"z" and "w" with "v".- D2 ^ u6 k/ z) x% M
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: g7 A* q/ \4 Q: h
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. @, b% u5 D' P' Q9 ]$ a
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
1 q, V& W8 L% Y dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
8 l2 s9 x$ Y# l/ r& M* e. z C7 u+ cUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze& [, l) ~" a) }4 F+ s( N
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0 E3 z# \6 S- C! XIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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