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A few of you may have seen this proposal already. 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 second year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with an “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, public akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected 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 languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people will 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 containing “ou” and after ze 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 ze vunted in ze forst plas. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

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RE: Europen commision proposes single Europen language

Why cannot  post anything with Paragraphs in it.

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Haha very good Smile

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Lost Angeles wrote:

 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 second year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with an “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, public akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected 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. 

This shows how forward thinking Linn really is!  shifty

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CnoEvil wrote:

Lost Angeles wrote:

 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 second year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with an “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter. In the 3rd year, public akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expected 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. 

This shows how forward thinking Linn really is!  shifty

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RE: Europen commision proposes single Europen language

Gibberish? 

 

They all seem to speak it anyway.

 

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Europen commision proposes single Europen language

Thank goodness it only affects the 'Europens',

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Mightier than the Eurosword, of course...

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Also good for keeping the Eurosheep in. 

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See also ' I have to buy some last-minute presents – can you tell me what time Europen?'

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The problem is that nobody can write with it until the commission have designed this Europen....which will take some time, as they will all argue over what colour of ink should be in it, and that it's unfair that the Germans supply it, and the French distribute it.  shifty

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Vy vate for fiv yers? I got usd to it by ze end of yor paragraf!

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Andrew Everard wrote:

See also ' I have to buy some last-minute presents – can you tell me what time Europen?'

 

Very good  excellent!

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Very good.The pffenig did start to drop about half way through.

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