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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
" Z8 x% n9 l9 Z2 Z/ R3 x# espelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in$ i- O4 {* c% H+ ]
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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" l0 v9 O9 c% k7 M8 gIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make6 j0 B0 u8 S/ {- j. L' [7 Y
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
% D4 d3 I4 ]* s/ j! @konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
/ X& b" v( t' B: A( l0 ntroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like" o F6 e9 i2 B9 I; D+ e
fotograf 20% shorter.- s6 c. X* S6 U) ~5 j' R
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to. i( T7 h5 C4 Q1 {% @' [3 {
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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d8 S9 s% N' n3 {Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always# G4 K# g1 Q" G% q: L* L
ben a deterent to akurate speling.( f& G$ a- l6 {$ z6 I
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
3 j, j6 s9 [6 Y8 y$ d2 Qdisgrasful 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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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
, _' V) j7 s9 y6 F+ ~# Iafter 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
- a7 q) h2 z% y. ~6 q. ?+ Nunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
. d! f' o n, J3 nUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze* X& W5 ?) c9 V2 s, p
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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