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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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0 [% k, G( Z: W" i; Y% }4 R* Y# cAs part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
7 F" q B6 _0 Z9 @7 W& pspelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
' Y5 B: K! T- M( @1 V$ x& C R* xplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".
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+ A1 Q( i2 C7 t+ |0 P0 n( pIn the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make8 G4 u0 X. x9 D" Q3 T
the sivil servants jump with joy.
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$ {9 c* j+ }' {9 r# g- g0 F1 p" DThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
* @) \ \2 m5 skonfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter./ o- W& N1 D+ k0 n' d$ J
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
3 e: ~7 Y/ `( S& ]1 y, F9 p9 Ltroublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
4 L9 \- G' a2 U% J$ v2 r4 o vfotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to3 }5 I6 J! G$ i, g( Y6 \8 M% e
reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.8 p5 q) r7 J( c/ j6 C
# u7 @/ {6 s" ~4 U, ?5 l7 JGovernments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always" C$ |$ D' C( k1 q( ~" ?: N
ben a deterent to akurate speling.
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
& ?: p* N1 n' Q4 tdisgrasful and it should go away.+ c1 S: K) V! r4 O
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By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
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: @% |1 X8 g) X! qDuring ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"and
6 {$ `: R1 v# q! b% ?after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.4 C/ V5 O+ J T* k+ _
+ W7 r' R: [& l7 t6 |( h' ZZer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
6 H" q# O B ]. c' b' U2 gunderstand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.1 v) \6 l3 h+ \; ~: P' q5 a
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze! C' J5 N) `2 Z
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" Q3 v$ t l/ WIf zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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