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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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% [* @- ~: ?4 B* GAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
x+ U) m( R5 X& W& T- R; Lspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
( h$ K2 E0 i' J+ F& E* Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* ?+ Z. r( A; H- _7 `$ J* S
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
, j0 o. K/ u4 q! u. S4 rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up+ T7 _# H! m* e
konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.7 l* v% D! K) r7 n1 e @; t6 y
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the, O+ \8 |; _2 _$ q2 Y. U7 Z0 D
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ j$ ?- M* u% m4 i
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
! G" h1 z3 R1 creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.# z ]) y+ u$ L% L; |' K0 F* `
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
% [' w2 Q$ { M4 n4 Q1 F+ yben 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
4 @0 O7 N% j( X) Sdisgrasful and it should go away.; Z9 ^) A2 C3 t0 M. E/ O
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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. T# T2 n: B) V+ c5 k" \3 GDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and( {7 \1 l" R3 Y( a( N
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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+ B/ h+ I5 ^1 H) v) S( }Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
" S) |4 g" B3 l3 {/ E. f1 Dunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
: o8 ]3 p' Q1 c; C+ YUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze" v, ~9 W# z' _+ A1 v
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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