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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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$ @" g, g, Q% P/ B1 ]As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* a" s6 f4 a0 o0 F9 O2 W2 P
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
1 P# C+ M* o4 v3 N4 [( }plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".: Z7 `; f1 J$ s$ _2 p
' s9 h$ T, J% ~7 O* D+ k' S4 \4 [) }In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make$ Q; W$ x! Z5 [
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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% \; P( J6 L" O- O9 F) DThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up4 ^/ k. T, K( |$ B$ Y2 H- k2 F
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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+ e3 p' i* l( Y$ k! I! i( dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the5 I3 d T9 G1 Y/ h* z. t/ [, e$ b
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to* e* [9 G! Q1 }3 }
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.2 e; u8 s k" t
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 M9 X, {2 J! k8 w
ben a deterent to akurate speling." m6 O& J5 E2 d1 E! ^
) ~5 \* u8 e: r( \Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is, e8 }: B+ m! O# Z- q% V) |
disgrasful and it should go away.
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) A. ^8 P. }4 z: KBy 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"and
1 G* c4 {: T3 G- [; k+ wafter 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% t2 c6 v, ~1 l7 [9 }+ I+ o! ?$ h
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# J) w3 p" H( b
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- s9 ?, N2 D' ]
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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