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English - the official language of the European Union

  • 23-07-2006 7:55pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭


    European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be
    the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was
    the other possibility.

    As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English
    spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in
    plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

    In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make
    the sivil servants jump with joy.

    The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up
    konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

    There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the
    troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like
    fotograf 20% shorter.

    In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to
    reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

    Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always
    ben a deterent to akurate speling.

    Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is
    disgrasful and it should go away.

    By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with
    "z" and "w" with "v".

    During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou"
    and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

    Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu
    understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

    Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze
    forst plas."


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭So Glad


    Hehehe. Very good. The writing half way down started to look like what most people speak like on the internet anyways.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭Mad Dog


    Rofl :d


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭abetarrush


    seisse :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭BFassassin


    excellent stuff. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Ha.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭jobonar


    very good :D


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