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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$ H4 x7 t% P1 F8 j
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
/ w3 V2 r1 b$ ?5 Z$ \7 T2 gplan 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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' w7 Z0 g1 M: f9 [* R a3 iThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
; c/ @5 H0 Z% h1 Z2 ~konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
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. i7 v4 A' t' h- f8 C4 z; d2 Yfotograf 20% shorter.
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1 _. p8 V) ^/ l% G3 `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
5 x; K0 Z" u1 F$ t8 s9 m& Ereach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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6 C8 F9 N- |8 ~6 ]3 dGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
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5 {8 R$ b! D/ w6 oAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is9 v6 A* Y% n* g6 [
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 N2 y, a, j+ G* N
"z" and "w" with "v".
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9 a1 [( y& ?- i( pDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and4 _3 ~/ Q) B/ Z2 Y5 s R* i
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
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Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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: ^: r1 e5 E) z1 I* rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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