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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
% ~& i4 r8 P- y2 s. Ispelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in. x8 Z$ n' P `' D6 U: s
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make* R' [" o6 P0 D2 H! [& Q+ W
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up3 [, v, w2 C# u% E, Z( f
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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1 n$ s$ p1 W$ b- FThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
) n0 f$ u+ c/ ?7 V2 H2 J2 S5 Gtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like% P- x- x7 n7 j6 e8 A
fotograf 20% shorter.
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0 W) `3 ^8 t0 pIn the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to) |& d( Y( e* @( ^+ a, ?
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always; a& P+ @6 ^: A: l E8 [
ben a deterent to akurate speling.3 Q: U+ L- q+ t! t
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
1 R$ i$ e: ]( Bdisgrasful and it should go away.
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) S8 q. d1 V% E; G7 v% r. \; GBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with% w+ T% M- O4 }8 G- ?' Y4 W R* K
"z" and "w" with "v".
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. W: U, \ u4 K" N( W6 rDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and3 t1 `- {# m& H
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 @4 J' W" R7 S
2 j- D4 Q1 E/ l3 H) u+ D3 _" kZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu9 a5 o6 r" o% |* R$ U7 y
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.0 |( L1 X3 |- a: L2 y8 {
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze W. A2 H* S, v' T3 z7 X+ [7 ~
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$ E" ~0 P4 m$ J$ A* D. NIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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