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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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# [) ? p4 o0 V* ?3 d T; a1 ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
* Q, V9 M9 T+ \1 z4 o' x8 Gspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in- S, R- o9 `1 D5 K; v/ w
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make7 h9 y& D1 V# }( D+ d
the sivil servants jump with joy.( n. {+ i" U# m. f8 O' C! O
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up* Y9 ~0 ]5 B/ U4 N# s5 [3 |1 M
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
' c% C, ~) D' Q" C+ itroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
: b4 }8 b+ H' d1 i7 l6 wfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to! r4 B' {1 h7 K; ?5 U/ K
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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, r( a+ k P3 ~Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always0 P" Z6 a- Y4 h# k/ N# @ l
ben a deterent to akurate speling./ @" j4 k1 F5 Y/ F5 g
+ h3 l9 F" _) P- V- p. ~' C" tAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% d; ]! {3 ^7 v% \
disgrasful and it should go away.$ J2 J7 I4 w0 }
. B$ U7 I0 c: e1 T `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"and8 O. j& F& n4 f3 j9 l* W4 z
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl./ o# |7 `! R' H( m R9 g( G
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu6 C* V: h# U/ z4 ` R6 k
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
9 A% V3 ?+ D& s5 f* L+ C- O9 {5 `Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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: \& ]" q' U6 x+ F9 {: NIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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