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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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D! ]; U3 h4 E& Y8 y' R) LAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
9 T# c1 c) A9 N/ h; jspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in% X/ ?" B" {9 X
plan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".* H& {# g% A: m8 F9 b' f* W+ k
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make5 S2 s2 A0 }2 O, m6 Y8 r
the sivil servants jump with joy.: e& U; ^$ d, d J) p
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The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the* x$ X' o! V- D" |6 r
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
" \8 P: M' N: H4 F% |& n/ Hfotograf 20% shorter.
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9 K) Q. f+ ^- S5 [) `In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to+ s3 `/ Z u9 }5 Q) _3 J) 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
; |' W- _+ T$ l- ^ r B( z6 hben a deterent to akurate speling.
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& a( F+ C: w; g, u! y7 MAlso, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is P& e5 ~, r' `+ G/ F
disgrasful and it should go away.
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and: B% A* j, q: h* P! d
after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu$ D+ K" D# C. s. F& u4 D" P
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.# f5 T4 |( A5 E7 o$ \/ P# X/ N
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
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* O( b- H0 L# o( ~, J# g+ o) rIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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