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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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) M, w' h6 ]6 {0 iAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English; E9 o; S6 J2 i6 m% G. E
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in) { A2 e7 D9 S/ n# Q- X/ c# |
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".- A7 H5 H- H: w, }; ?
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
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. M5 y! g: X, l5 j8 ~: y' N% \' }5 G& nThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
$ v% v- }4 R5 `9 c% D9 ?4 y& G: jkonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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- D/ {( m- S* g- tThere will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the) i0 a: U7 a: S: X, p9 y3 r/ ^
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
+ ?6 `) x$ m7 F: p* r7 c$ Creach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always8 J( F y! G- j$ g2 g6 }
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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7 D) _ f9 y; D. q" WAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
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) E I, K( e) U+ }" z9 z! nBy the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with! h4 _. a5 u4 }3 A* u
"z" and "w" with "v".( a: } _' o2 g. o% C: c: {' Q
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and G) X8 ~2 |8 d. ^0 N! L
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.5 _0 n, C# J/ P
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
$ V" p$ s/ |6 Y! ? x# O8 {understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.
1 l* B! [4 D4 I. D; dUnd efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze: z! s; j2 [6 _+ {
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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