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How2Speak European

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  • 04-04-2001 1:45pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 9


    Got this e-mail not-so-long-ago:

    The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English
    will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the
    other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government
    conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted
    a 5 year phase-in plan that would be 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 the"k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 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 ekspekted
    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 the silent
    "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

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

    After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no
    mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
    Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen ve vil tak over ze world!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭adnans


    LMAO, excellent material.

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    Nice one indeed.

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    LOL, v funny!!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 Syngen-Smythe


    Can anybody tell me how2 get one of those pics beside my name- i feel a bit left out!


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