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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 c# L/ Y2 ~( D+ ~! d9 ZAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English: e/ j: R6 P* k0 |1 s) K
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in6 c: l! M. A% P; Q! L
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".2 l" r& L. f4 v, e
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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) E) f* C# {) u* T' D% fThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
3 m+ o$ V4 l7 {konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.& T" g3 q# _4 q" Q# Y* Z9 B
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5 p6 H+ C6 L8 h% }1 ^There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
$ G6 G% b6 @9 ^; Ptroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like9 e# D$ ^7 G2 G" q: G9 B
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to7 {9 i* d- R# z! h, m7 ~1 q+ G; O6 Q# u
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always9 w, H5 l( t1 g6 V3 v# p
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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/ N8 a7 P% K5 h' OAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is& N/ W% r: S( y0 ^
disgrasful and it should go away.
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7 a) A A% e1 E) hBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with# U, @ w% M6 p; Y5 ~- m
"z" and "w" with "v".$ U# V8 N. h; T5 a( {( ~
% C# U d9 ?: P# r0 FDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and7 u# Q$ P# d2 o$ Q
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: R# m( E5 ^9 c
5 x( M, W6 M+ B: z: l ]Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu' s' j8 k% Y* [3 _: R$ z
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
6 U y5 R- w& uUnd 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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