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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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6 h: C: H7 D4 A$ h/ n" c2 KAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English* s5 v E2 V9 \. Z8 o8 b
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
# b% N0 Q5 q4 \) gplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
" I) n, ?* R3 b* h( Sthe sivil servants jump with joy.3 H1 U0 q l4 W4 E# \: s
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up5 j) r' V b. ~5 m
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ c( H9 g% B } V
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F6 D, s" Q: F3 eThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 a( f/ E0 K) z n: @" h! jtroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
, i% h* l% g1 S( S7 a) d6 nfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
# T6 X/ F" O# M* z$ preach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.9 r* `! Z2 X7 l# X& \
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% s9 L. B! l2 d5 ?& b9 g, a' ]. x9 Fben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
e2 Q" e+ ^3 D5 W T# F' g3 B4 {7 vdisgrasful and it should go away.# W% X7 V G4 a) j& ]9 x' ]5 |7 M
0 V/ |/ F- F) ]3 J: FBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# |) D5 @6 R: x
"z" and "w" with "v".' E: _! u9 c2 n9 ]0 P ?& l
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
) w) ^1 R6 r. A, `& _$ }# D7 |after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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0 v$ b6 G0 z6 yZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
5 R* u' w3 V# k. Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- u* u% ~% N+ d8 ?+ E( U9 M2 u
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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( k t- N1 ]6 q# X N. W' wIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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