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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
9 L+ t: |* O' J4 @spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in* p- |2 l6 \' u" ^* `, E
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".! t2 B2 y& t' V# K
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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* o6 ~- Q/ L, q+ w8 a( r) G& _
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. r6 r$ ?! ^1 l
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
( z- f# M X- U; U* H6 xtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
& V1 K- R3 D+ B+ c; N2 Q1 zfotograf 20% shorter.
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1 g. l( P6 n- S" [ k! V& l: |! XIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always4 R' `5 t2 r2 b1 W& ?0 a
ben a deterent to akurate speling.6 b! }% m8 t, ~/ J
) J7 z) X) v/ W7 {0 MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is# T$ ~- J5 S& D0 \
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
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3 ^! L9 z# N4 GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and- ^4 n7 B6 E' t6 l! t! e% L
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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' p1 j7 k4 L6 PZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
3 V6 ^) V3 N/ \, t: b+ e& Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.4 i I1 p( f n( T- S. i
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze- Q7 d7 ?2 y7 a/ `6 c1 J
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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