New Official Language of the European Union

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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 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 containing "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.:thumbsup:

Back to german..................lol

and you are kidding right? please say you are BA.

Hahaha, brilliant post Breukelen advocaat. But did they really accept English as the official language?

Hilarious.
If you read the last couple sentances out loud you sound like a cheesy german officer character from some old war movie.:p
Good stuff BA.:thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by sanguinekane

Hahaha, brilliant post Breukelen advocaat. But did they really accept English as the official language?

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I don't think so! :dance:

Here's the real story:

http://europa.eu/languages/en/document/59

1. How many languages does the European Union work in?
The European Union has 20 official languages: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. It has also been decided to give Irish the status of an official language of the EU, with effect from 1 January 2007.

More about the languages and the European Union:

http://www.answers.com/topic/languag...european-union

Official languages of the European Union
The official languages of the European Union, as stipulated in EEC Council: Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community of 1958-04-15 (as amended) [4], are


Official languages of the European Union

The official languages of the European Union, as stipulated in EEC Council: Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community of 1958-04-15 (as amended) [4], are
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Polish
Portuguese
Slovak
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish

Starting on January 1, 2007, the following languages will also become official:

Bulgarian
Irish
Romanian