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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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/ g4 `! w7 W H8 W( ?As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
2 c$ |4 d0 J G; J( V: ^spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in& ]& S+ u2 R0 w3 C1 p6 w% T/ a
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish"./ ?7 K6 K6 K3 ~( |
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make( Z9 z) b% g& [5 S5 C2 N
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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5 T) \3 Y$ s6 b9 h/ o- E. ^The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ N: N) `( K1 W! H
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) A, K% n9 }, V: \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( j/ f. F3 n4 R
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
7 f, t# R5 C/ o$ R3 _9 N a% lben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 W* L2 \, j2 h5 mAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
( e! Y N4 |& {disgrasful and it should go away.5 C/ M* X, t# ?6 ^+ ], K6 t; G! N
& R, d7 @2 A6 R% O' Z6 I$ 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! b7 I- z2 j! |! G- c- N' v( P2 P- x
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.1 n3 @7 j/ U, e4 v) k( U- H: X
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu0 f2 k0 u0 g. M& W' n
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
t( ~+ A& s# Y. gUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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