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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- ^: d5 _0 K2 d* a2 B
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
. k, o% g; @% l2 {0 Kplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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W1 U& k6 X$ {In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make' Y( p0 B0 ]/ {8 O
the sivil servants jump with joy.; M% a4 b8 A* }; F% C/ `
& x7 L0 Z" \! y1 z/ P# {The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up8 x- e4 _; d* Y+ c* L3 u
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.; t- z& q& v& L% @, P2 K; X6 [
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the; [! |$ j+ N; L
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
7 y9 T7 E% O4 ifotograf 20% shorter.$ u! f1 D$ L$ q' k9 j9 H
: G/ h, J4 v2 ^In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to: @! W F) Q; W$ G# d9 b- P
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.1 U# b3 Z- C" E- h2 d: S
4 y+ `9 ]+ b0 F. ~! V, @ zGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always- k$ Y }+ N: e
ben a deterent to akurate speling.4 q' t% a5 L3 j, r+ i
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
7 ^. A7 @; B. }7 k: j; Gdisgrasful and it should go away." v7 O% k9 y$ K! m S/ F
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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( G6 y( ^" a$ t% nDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
. u F% b# G$ Q6 i, Kafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% ~: U! F3 _( `. p3 M* Z! J, ~
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
+ ~- Z$ P9 R! ^; R7 bunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
4 O: B. ~/ x1 s, L/ nUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze2 S, B5 r& b; S1 B
forst plas.
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) ~* e8 M2 F& |! _$ BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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