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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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the other possibility.
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As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
# [/ Y" L# `7 g' h6 v! }spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
" P3 z) A& J! u5 {- Vplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"." ~3 p H% j, w4 y; w2 t* M9 M- C
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make; v- H1 J7 \, K8 |; i
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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: _5 E1 q' U3 L1 M- O/ _# [7 nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up. K5 U9 u7 i- o" p' V X
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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" X$ K0 j9 U8 Q y. d1 dThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
; `$ `: u, c# D+ ~2 atroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
; {: I5 `2 n+ a( p' Hfotograf 20% shorter." c- E$ v! A# Q' k
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
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; O$ v* G+ d2 N7 R. _9 m9 ~1 WGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always$ u2 c( H( P. r6 E" _0 I) y* Z
ben a deterent to akurate speling.' f$ k. B, x1 P
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is% r- r+ r; A) o% f, A
disgrasful and it should go away.
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4 U4 B9 Y# q+ u8 H# tBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with9 i8 {; k* V6 L
"z" and "w" with "v".: F/ g" T# Q# x; i) S. |, S- r
5 }/ A0 J! r& @$ N0 t# q1 B; YDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
* y% n* v1 `3 E) [after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.% g! q' X8 |! n% ~
" w. b) w- q, OZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
: w) O8 P/ {# ~ f5 W- tunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
( L1 K4 J, r- J8 zUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: n/ V9 e* o8 d3 f3 u! {- {1 M
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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