English to be the new Official Language in Europe!

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Lifer
Jul 18, 2000
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New Euro-English Announcement

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". Certainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favor 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 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 languag is disgrasful, and they should go away.

By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with"z"and "w" with "v".

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 trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!! And zen ve vil take over ze vorld!!!
 

glen

Lifer
Apr 28, 2000
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English is basically Universally spoken.
The dollar is also basically Universally accepted.
For example, oil contracts are always written in English and use the dollar, no matter what the countries involved use or speak.
 

beer

Lifer
Jun 27, 2000
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Originally posted by: glen
English is basically Universally spoken.
The dollar is also basically Universally accepted.
For example, oil contracts are always written in English and use the dollar, no matter what the countries involved use or speak.

did you read the post?