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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
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4 H% [6 d& P! M4 w9 M, z1 V) G+ {As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English0 H$ {' ^$ `2 L
spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase-in
- E1 O2 v+ O" N' nplan that would become known as "EuroEnglish".4 w9 E& n6 X! T" X' l
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In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
/ j9 P4 u7 [) R7 y7 d8 @the sivil servants jump with joy. p5 Z2 Z0 _- u% J* N
0 G& q- H3 T3 u3 y3 oThe hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
. P9 P1 w' U+ U, e. s- \. `konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.
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There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the$ ^0 b( ~( C6 {% t6 Q- k
troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like$ t0 w; n W* t p' ]( ^
fotograf 20% shorter.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
/ B [- z1 k3 G6 q9 v8 ]9 ^reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
5 p3 t M0 t2 Y: ]+ z5 I2 b% E+ bben a deterent to akurate speling.$ J" f$ \, E2 a W+ f/ ?. h
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Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
2 f% K6 z2 o6 G. ]" qdisgrasful and it should go away.
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5 ?# p% F% s6 j' L g8 C" lBy 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
8 P% q, f. u/ c9 a; Oafter ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.: R k/ @! a( R! c
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Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu* I) j A; V8 A! u6 \
understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.$ [; u4 z* H" T: Y! { U
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze5 [( { g0 N) q8 c
forst plas.
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If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. |
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