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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 English4 {# J: T5 l6 E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
2 Q- `" d) n1 Cplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
( `1 ^2 r' p g$ l: c0 `# _3 e2 \7 o: W5 rthe sivil servants jump with joy.
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6 l6 N( S$ K- l7 WThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
8 Y) ~( \; I& s- z5 ?* `+ }konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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' Y& M1 Y5 Q& M* M0 Q( WThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
- w6 d# f4 G7 G) J$ F# Z+ W- s4 Otroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
0 f2 W0 G9 i* P/ m( \. ofotograf 20% shorter.7 G x% `/ D6 Q, F: J n4 g
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to/ \. H8 B7 C) w8 i
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
) o% `* r6 @- |( f" Gben a deterent to akurate speling.
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8 J# r2 o% a* c& WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
6 ~ o! U/ I& j& ]disgrasful and it should go away.( Q0 t! y" i& p1 `/ @
/ w( ^, f' R- U6 ^7 s& @$ M0 ZBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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/ E& \/ j3 H& R- B1 C/ _' UDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and2 T. W. u# m% V3 b
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl., \! S& I7 ~* {% N3 G
5 \3 j# ~+ g5 J9 E! aZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ g3 |% B3 l& funderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.& v4 {6 j5 @1 P2 g* S" Y
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze4 g' w' t5 V3 @6 S2 k
forst plas.
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# x& B+ T3 a; gIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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