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 leters 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. If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl
2007-09-25 01:51:42 · 25 answers · asked by 36 6 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Philippines
bgee.....there is a difference (a bit) about american and british english, like apartment in u.s.-lift in u.k....so "apartment for rent" would become "lift to let".
2007-09-25 02:04:37 · update #1
papa chuck, piaryel...thanks for the correction,have thoughts about that but was confused with this "for rent" or "to let" i learned decades ago.
2007-09-25 12:43:56 · update #2
bopols.....here's to us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngbGRxsgwDo
2007-09-25 23:35:55 · update #3
farao, zer vil be mor trubl if ve merg Urop viz Asia. Ze languag ov ze gays in Manila vil ovrtak ze languag ov Urop!
2007-09-25 23:08:00 · answer #1 · answered by boyplakwatsa.com 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
American English
2007-09-25 22:05:54 · answer #2 · answered by u2_rich 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nicely done, pharaoh. I've always wanted to learn German but didn't know you can't get there without passing through American, British and Euro-English.
BTW, the guy who said the British term for apartment is lift was wrong. Lift is British for elevator, flat is for apartment.
So, apartment for rent in US would be flat for let in Britain.
I'll stick with American English. It's been a part of me since grade school and not so easy to dislodge. However, there were stories recently about academics wanting to simplify the American English although the scope of the proposed changes was much narrower. They will pick only a few words that seem impossible to pronounce even to the best-educated population. Examples of such words: phthalates, ptomaine
2007-09-29 15:20:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
British English- at least the words are spelt correctly.
I hope that the Euro-English is a joke otherwise it will be next to impossible to understand anyone after 5 years.
Lord Pharoh, slight problem here:
it's apartment in US and flat in UK
it's elevator in US and lift in UK
2007-09-25 15:22:28 · answer #4 · answered by PC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
British English! Could you imagine going to see a Shakespeare play in American English, or other.
2007-09-25 13:53:07 · answer #5 · answered by John W 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I prefer American English because it is what I am used to. Speaking British English would be really cool though. Nothing wrong with that. Euro English is ok as well.
2007-09-25 10:51:43 · answer #6 · answered by pcja101 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
funny stuff but i personally prefer american english because i've lived in different states in the US and everywhere i go, it's like people have different accents. grew up in california, lived in texas for a while, midwesterns talk a bit slooow, new york accent is different, and now i'm in the south...it's like being in completely different countries when you meet americans from different parts of this country. it's amusing!
2007-09-25 11:23:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
British ENGLISH
2007-09-25 08:59:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Very nice post! Thanks. My classmates (yeah 'am at school right now) are hovering around my laptop all chuckling.
My preferred brand of English is the American version (the one I learned at our schools in the Philippines and the same one I'm using right now here in the states).
2007-09-25 12:55:47 · answer #9 · answered by tin2 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
wow then English will be more similar to Macedonian or should i say vau den inglish vil bi mor similar tu masedonian hehe
2007-09-30 17:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋