The EU 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.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
2006-08-02 03:11:48 · 27 answers · asked by Katey 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
ve hav vays ov making u laff
2006-08-02 03:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
English
2006-08-02 04:38:26 · answer #2 · answered by Irene N 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It probably has something to do with the fact that during 1939 - 1945 the Germans tried to force themselves and their language on the whole of Europe and also, ENGLISH is spoken in more countries around the world than German is. I think only Germany and Austria speak German..
English is the international language because we are WORLD CONQUERERS and the worlds SUPERPOWER the USA use's English so that is that. It is the worlds language.
2006-08-02 03:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by super_star 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a rather old joke. Incidentally, for the "worrying" answerer: the EU institutions have all the national languages as official:it's translators heaven.And why should one worry, after all? If English were replaced as official language of anything I can think of, it would be a good development, because it will force English speakers to learn at least one other language, which will make them better persons.
2006-08-02 04:17:36 · answer #4 · answered by Cristian Mocanu 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Ich finde das hier sehr kommisch! Hab ganz gut gelacht! but need to say when English speakers start to master a second tongue as common as we Euros do then maybe Another old 1 will fade!
What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?
A. Multilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?
A. Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks 1 language?
A. BRITTISH!
2006-08-04 23:23:39 · answer #5 · answered by camshy0078 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes very good but have to go now as my keyboard is no longer useful to any form of English.
2006-08-02 03:23:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like that, it really made me smile :-)
I think I'll always prefer English because it's my native language and it's so fun to speak :-)
But then, I'd also like to be fluent in German and I'm currently trying to learn :-)
2006-08-02 23:56:13 · answer #7 · answered by fojo81 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like it, but what makes it even funnier is the people who don't realise its tongue in cheek, i love that...
now get back to work schnell schnell!!
2006-08-02 03:57:40 · answer #8 · answered by Timmy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English is way easier than german
2006-08-06 02:42:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So, how is your german going then? Any more words since "Schnitzel" ???? Grüße aus Deutschland ;)
2006-08-06 00:28:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋