EU tackles Gernam language

New rules regarding German language.

Thought a few "Johnny Foreigners" might be interested

"Germany responded by explaining that compound nouns were part of their ‘historischesprachentradition’ at which point several delegates ran out of the chamber claiming ‘linguistic bullying’."

I think I'll send that link to my boss,in Munich, seeing as I work for a German company







Oh, and for all your troubles with the German language, there's always www.leo.org.

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Tomorrow the committee is expected to vote that it would all be a lot simpler if everyone in the European Union just spoke English. ‘We do this every time there is a new French delegate. It’s worth it just to see their faces.’

Priceless

Jabba,

Listen mate, you've got me in heaps of trouble... That site is so funny, the Mrs has got upset and gone to bed as I kept bursting out with laughter

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English now the Official language for Europe

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

Great find Jabba.

Last year they abandoned years of talks aimed at standardizing the noises attributed to European farm animals.

The Germans were insistent that the horse went ‘hu-u-u-u’, the English said that the horse went ‘neigh’ and the French said a horse went perfectly with shallots and a red wine sauce.

Originally Posted by Jelster

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That is brilliant


I like this one too