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EU adopting English as the official language? (funny)

 
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rebmetpes



Joined: 30 Oct 2006
Location: Geoje-Si

PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:13 pm    Post subject: EU adopting English as the official language? (funny) Reply with quote

EU adopting English as the official language?


The 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 zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a rel 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.

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oldfatfarang



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: On the road to somewhere.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So it's true. My speling realy is inovativ - and those EU drons are yuz reding my posts on Davs and kopying my speling.
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browneyedgirl



Joined: 17 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can see children everywhere in the EU rejoicing. Laughing
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