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- jox
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, Her Majesty's 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 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 peopl 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.
- lowimpakt0
ha
- jevad0
hahahahah
- DutchBoy0
Oh my friggin god, jox!!
you cracked me up bigtime over here!!
lmao
that's a joke innit?
- DutchBoy0
we should choose ebonics. it will make watching political debate so much more interesting.
- lowimpakt0
yea, conduct the parliament through rap or screw all this translation into 20 different languages and communicate through the international language of lovin'
- rasko40
where does Wendell fit into this?
- lowimpakt0
commissioner for wacky vibes. it's a strong portfolio.
- Gorbie0
heraus loud lachen!
- StuBru0
Jox, thank you for making me laugh. The shitty Monday-feeling is gone.
- ********0
Deutsch? The official language of the EU? How many people outside of Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria and maybe parts of Northern Italia speak Deutsch? Anyway just my two cents.
I would think French over German, but most of you guys speak English in the EU. At least the youth.
- ********0
The German Vote
On January 13, 1795, US Congress considered a proposal, not to give German any official status, but merely to print the federal laws in German as well as English. During the debate, a motion to adjourn failed by one vote. The final vote rejecting the translation of federal laws, which took place one month later, is not recorded.
The translation proposal itself originated as a petition to Congress on March 20, 1794, from a group of Germans living in Augusta, Virginia. A House committee responding to that petition recommended publishing sets of the federal statutes in English and distributing them to the states, together with the publication of three thousand sets of laws in German, "for the accommodation of such German citizens of the United States, as do not understand the English language." (American State Papers ser. 10, v. 1:114). According to the succinct report in the Aurora Gazette, "A great variety of plans were proposed, but none that seemed to meet the general sense of the House." (22 January, 1795)
- DutchBoy0
aniway, i just realizd zat in ze end it al sundz german aftr al.
- MLVR0
lol...
- MLVR0
lol...
- kld0
I's be fo' ebonics and shit.
In oakland, it's the second language.
- ********0
I's be fo' ebonics and shit.
In oakland, it's the second language.
kld
(aug 30 04, 10:46)and Baltimore and Philly, etc., etc. It's so hip to improperly use grammar.