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Kalailan
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european commissioners

Post by Kalailan »

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been
reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
communications,
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
five-year phased plan for
what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for
short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly,
sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.
Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear
up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

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

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

Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horible mes of silent "e"s
in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing
"th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining
"ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of
leters.

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

:wink:

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Post by Keesa »

HAHAHAHA! I love that! That's so cute...I nearly choked myself laughing. Thanks for posting that!

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Post by MDS »

That was highly amusing! Nice post!

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Post by Episcopus »

Really? How can they ever fix english spelling...unless that be a joke any how i do be laughing!

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Post by mingshey »

Episcopus wrote:Really? How can they ever fix english spelling...unless that be a joke any how i do be laughing!
Of course it's a joke. I met it several years ago and then I had laughed as Keesa laughed. :D

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Post by Episcopus »

I hate English. Yet something that makes that I hate myself is the knowledge that no language will ever come more eloquently hence (my mouth) than English. Irrespective of how hard I may try at Latin etc.

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