The official language of the European Union ...

[magdalena]

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 vords kontaining "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.

[Stonecold54]

lol...that was good

[coffee-guy]

OMG - that's too funny!!!!!!!

[wnabeabeast]

Damn that's funny. I always made fun of of english lenguage because of the same reason. In Turkish language that's how we spell, letter will not sound like anything else but the way they sound in the ALPHABET, actually that would be ALFABET or if you say CAN it spells like the name KEN because letter A doesn't make the letter E sound. And here is my last funny example, this the one I like the best.
Why does Oprah and Opera sounds different? they both starts with letter O, Oprah should be Oprah and Opera should be Apera.
OK I am having too much fun here I better stop. :nerdnew:
But in reality if they stay on it make those changes it'll make things whole lot easier. Even at schools or should I say SKUULS because why would letters S and C together makes the sound that a K can make just by it self? what I am saying is just from that point kids will have whole lot less spelling mistakes and that will bring the grades up.
OK enough I better stop or should I say INAF, :laughnew:

[magdalena]

Damn that's funny. I always made fun of of english lenguage because of the same reason. In Turkish language that's how we spell, letter will not sound like anything else but the way they sound in the ALPHABET, actually that would be ALFABET or if you say CAN it spells like the name KEN because letter A doesn't make the letter E sound. And here is my last funny example, this the one I like the best.

I totally agree, it is the same with Polish. You read it as you see it and there is no confusion.
I don't know how many of you know anything about German language but the last line almost looks like written German :)

Anyways, I am glad that all of you liked it.

[Shibby]

Damn that's funny. I always made fun of of english lenguage because of the same reason. In Turkish language that's how we spell, letter will not sound like anything else but the way they sound in the ALPHABET, actually that would be ALFABET or if you say CAN it spells like the name KEN because letter A doesn't make the letter E sound. And here is my last funny example, this the one I like the best.
Why does Oprah and Opera sounds different? they both starts with letter O, Oprah should be Oprah and Opera should be Apera.
OK I am having too much fun here I better stop. :nerdnew:
But in reality if they stay on it make those changes it'll make things whole lot easier. Even at schools or should I say SKUULS because why would letters S and C together makes the sound that a K can make just by it self? what I am saying is just from that point kids will have whole lot less spelling mistakes and that will bring the grades up.
OK enough I better stop or should I say INAF, :laughnew:

You do realize this is a joke, right? :)

[wnabeabeast]

You do realize this is a joke, right? :)

Did you read what I wrote? I kept making fun of the whole thing and at the end I made a point but I said "if" and even before I made that point I said "I beter stop I am havin too much fun here"
Oh and the answer of your question is, yes. :nerdnew:

[house1]

that was good

[Shibby]

Did you read what I wrote? I kept making fun of the whole thing and at the end I made a point but I said "if" and even before I made that point I said "I beter stop I am havin too much fun here"
Oh and the answer of your question is, yes. :nerdnew:

Ok, I thought you were joking during the first part, but the last part you sounded serious.

[FitnessBrat]

I don't know how many of you know anything about German language but the last line almost looks like written German :)

The German language is incredibly difficult to learn to write :wacko:

[babyblues]

The German language is incredibly difficult to learn to write :wacko:

Try Russian.

[FitnessBrat]

Try Russian.

I don't think I'll ever have a need for Russian. Is the grammar all confusing with masculine/feminine/neutral etc?

[magdalena]

I think German is harder than Russian. In german you have to constantly think of the verbs cause you have to put the first part of the verb at the end of the sentence....I took it for 3 years and don't remember a thing....it is very confusing also with the masculine/feminine/ neutral side.
With Russian....I think mostly the letters are confusing but if you learn the alphabet, you should be fine.

[babyblues]

I think German is harder than Russian. In german you have to constantly think of the verbs cause you have to put the first part of the verb at the end of the sentence....I took it for 3 years and don't remember a thing....it is very confusing also with the masculine/feminine/ neutral side.
With Russian....I think mostly the letters are confusing but if you learn the alphabet, you should be fine.

I dated a girl from Russia and she used to say that one letter changes the word completely and/or changes it's meaning in a sentence. Russian is widely accepted as one of the hardest languages to learn how to speak. One of my school teachers said the same thing about German that the conjugation of verbs is very difficult. But overall, I think Russian is considered more difficult to learn how to speak. I never tried though.

[FitnessBrat]

I think German is harder than Russian. In german you have to constantly think of the verbs cause you have to put the first part of the verb at the end of the sentence....I took it for 3 years and don't remember a thing....it is very confusing also with the masculine/feminine/ neutral side.
With Russian....I think mostly the letters are confusing but if you learn the alphabet, you should be fine.

Me too - 3 years got me nothing but a headache :wacko: