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New Euro Speak: Official Language Of The Eu
Topic Started: Feb 2 2010, 08:59 AM (696 Views)
DragonLegend
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The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European nation 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 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 one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with the "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!
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I Lol'd.
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Tru tru.
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Lolz.
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Ww2nerd
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Well done legend, well done :P

Looks like you won't be needing to learn all that English after all Max :D
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by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Parasky
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My god, its full of German.
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Neitzluber
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Ai nou its a jouk, bot it luks gud.

English speling ruls suk!
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Computerwiz3
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Okay sorry to be stupid here, but this true?
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Ww2nerd
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It's a joke.
Don't worry Compwiz. It seems all smart folk have issues with common sense at times :P
"There are strange things done in the midnight sun,
by the men who moil for gold; the arctic trails have their secret tales that'd make your blood run cold...
the Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but the queerest they ever did see...
was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge, that I cremated Sam McGee."

- Robert W. Service
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Neitzluber
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It wud bi kul if inglish wer speld laik dis zou.
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Parasky
Feb 3 2010, 04:48 AM
My god, its full of German.

Ist das ein Witz? Das ist doch nicht Deutsch! Ohh hast du nichts gelernt auf die Schule ^_^
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Computerwiz3
Feb 3 2010, 05:28 AM
Okay sorry to be stupid here, but this true?

The EU will never get English as the only language so it has to be a joke. The EU currently has 23 official languages :lol:
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Computerwiz3
Feb 3 2010, 04:28 AM
Okay sorry to be stupid here, but this true?

The choice was between German and English. They decided to reform English, but if you read it out loud, it's just English with a German accent.

EDIT: And Max, my school doesn't offer German. Only French, Spanish, and Chinese. But yes, I did learn much there.
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Parasky
Feb 3 2010, 04:42 PM
Computerwiz3
Feb 3 2010, 04:28 AM
Okay sorry to be stupid here, but this true?

EDIT: And Max, my school doesn't offer German. Only French, Spanish, and Chinese. But yes, I did learn much there.

Schade. Deutsch ist eine schöne Sprache :(

Haha dein Schule hat kein Englisch? :lol:
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