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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 English
' }8 B9 Q, c- G. Rspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
5 @8 a, p# m, m5 H$ k3 iplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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& {# E3 _6 Y1 m+ kThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
" W& x4 t( n+ j. u8 O% X3 Nkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the/ y+ R- ? L" A, J; p' ]& n
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
1 ~% h4 O$ Y7 W, O5 A+ }fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
7 f/ P0 f( E' Vreach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
8 Y* Q3 q5 Y# v8 x- Y! o( Pben a deterent to akurate speling.3 ]( A- b# _$ l2 g9 q$ w
7 I3 }" g+ f( |3 ~5 {* {: W, NAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
9 p4 |# G7 U5 {disgrasful and it should go away.9 Z6 [6 A6 q3 B! s' ^3 d
9 ]8 X0 Z1 I5 p" @) XBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with8 x; F1 D0 O, ]* Q$ u
"z" and "w" with "v".- \! d& w2 W _9 d1 ?4 V, H7 C7 F
- \0 {; W- ?* d3 X4 I, _) O; \During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and% Q$ z2 A0 f( N6 D8 t( e
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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$ m, C/ W _! M2 qZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu- K: U: k& @. Y) G& Q) [
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.- n( j s1 ^' u
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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! t% W# ?* n/ P9 BIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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