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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, 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 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.

    Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    teh old
    Really?

    This is why panzer doesn't attempt humor, even if its just someone else's humor copy/pasted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
    Really?

    This is why panzer doesn't attempt humor, even if its just someone else's humor copy/pasted.
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    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Very old.




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    Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
    This is why panzer doesn't attempt humor
    You're German! Best to stear well clear of any attempts at humour.



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    The EU is all about fixing this: British jokes, German roads, and Italian food.
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    So France is kinda of useless? Glad to see the EU wont drastically change the culture of the continent much
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    You're German! Best to stear well clear of any attempts at humour.
    From a Parisian?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
    From a Parisian?
    The laughing smilie makes me assume there is some sort of attempt at humour in there, but I think your Germaness got the better of you.


    So France is kinda of useless?
    No. France is the Texas of Europe.

    It just sits there, right in the middle, being Big and Strong and letting the others worship us in jealous despair.
    Last edited by Louis VI the Fat; 09-19-2008 at 22:47.
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