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European Union decides on common language

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Toastmaker

Charter Member 2016
I think this will work out fine for them. . .

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 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 people 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 vordskontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl 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 zey vunted in ze forst plas !

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Ahhh! Another clever legislation...:jump:

Unanimously Greek?...





Grand idea...it is after all the oldest European language, that of true scholars and philosophy.


bearcat241 said:
:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:


...a toast!:icon29:
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Oh I see, 241...I get the drift. Another legislation...
oh well, the more, the merrier. Splendid idea; A European drink to toast with....let me see, now.........OUZO! Yes! That's it!


Cheers! Then!.....Oops, nearly forgot the first legislation; Στην υγειά σάς! (Cheers in 'European)

Oh for Pete's sake Matt! Watch where yer aiming....Euro pean on m'shoes!!!
 
They could always split the difference between English and German and use Dutch.
 
Hiawatha or Pocahonda ?

HouseHobbit said:
English!!!
Why not speak American instead..
:applause: :applause: :applause:
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I have reliable information showing that it was in fact, during a pow-wow on the question, in Brussels - under serious consideration.

Eventually, It was wisely decided that too many dialects were in question, and preference for any one particular version would cause serious disruptions and jealousy between the tribes!...Sioux...Cherokee...Apache. There'd be an open war!

As Chief Sitting Bull would probably have commented; HOW!


No. The Europeans, for historical and cultural reasons, are quite correct in their choice of Greek! :applause:

It's older and more sophistiated than latin (half of which is an adulterated version of greek, anyway).
 
One of Robert Heinlein's storys used telepathic twins as the heros of a story that had one of the twins travelling at near lightspeed in an exploration ship, with the other remaining on Earth so they could maintain instantaneous communications...

When the one travelling twin returned to Earth having only aged a few months, nearly a hundred years had passed on Earth and his twin was obviously a very old man. As soon as the intrepid explorer landed, he immediately desired to travel to his twin's hospital room where he was living out his last few months of life.

During his absence, Earth had adopted a common language, which as it happens was so different he couldn't understand anyone! When he asked for directions for public transportation, the first person he asked replied, "Out down go rightwards, ask from alone..."

Huh? "What the heck does that mean," he asked his twin telepathically. "Oh," his twin thought back "that's simple! Go out the door, down the stairs, turn right and ask the first person you see standing by himself."

Anyone remember the efforts to push Esperanto as a common language?
 
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Toastmaker said:
I think this will work out fine for them. . .

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 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 people 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 vordskontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl 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 zey vunted in ze forst plas !

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Would this be British English or American?
 
British or American ? . . . not sure. Wasn't there a time (I think in the 15-1600's) when Spanish was considered the language of commerce ? And then later, it became French for commerce and politics. I suppose this happened as empires grew and then became diminished with the spread of nationalism.


Creo que es una buena incentivo para aprender otros idiomas, verdad ?

:running:
 
Its all Greek to me too Wing Zulu...

Wing_Z said:
:isadizzy: Είναι Όλα τα ελληνικά σε μένα:isadizzy:
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speaking of Greek; nobody has yet mentioned Welsh!

Now there's another beautiful language...almost as old as the Welsh hills and mountains themselves.
If we all learnt that, names of places and railway stations like;

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

 
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