English Europe.

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. If zis mad you smil,
pleas pas on to oza pepl.

Zen ve vil rul ze vorld!!!

😂 dam ze germans 😛

close ze thread, before ze germanz get here

i love Snatch

If it was up to me.....I would prefer all of you speak French or Dutch.

If it was up to me.....I would prefer all of you speak French or Dutch.

Originally posted by finti
just like we would prefer you Californians not to speak at all

lol this coming from a norwegian

lol this coming from a norwegian

Originally posted by finti
just like we would prefer you Californians not to speak at all

That would mean me not talking.....no one wants that.

That would mean me not talking.....no one wants that.

Shux 😮 Flattering as always.

English is such a mongrel language, bring back the lingua fraca of by gone days, like Latin, now there was a beautiful language, or maybe French...

Im so glad we dont speak french

But its the language of love..... snort.

language of love my ass

Still, its an interesting proposal, and could do interesting things. Although to be honest I would have preferred some other language other then English.

EU is crap, but if they should choose a coomon language English had to be it. A lot of the countries in Europe has English as a second language so the easiest way is to make the language English

Originally posted by Imperial_Samura
Still, its an interesting proposal, and could do interesting things. Although to be honest I would have preferred some other language other then English.

english is the main language son

I know, I know. Raging against the machine and all that, but in truth I agree with it, and actually think it is a good step to put it down on paper, as it really is already the case unofficially. Though now I think Australia and New Zealand should create our own Union, and pick our own language.... which would also be English....

I only know english and Italian so this does not mean nothering to me but it is interesting never the less.JM

Originally posted by finti
just like we would prefer you Californians not to speak at all

Nah! All Californians should speak. Except Arnold....he can't speak at all.

Just learn French.....I'm barely taking it myself.