Here is something for you cunning linguists to get your tongues around:

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 peple 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.

As it will only be a matter of time, a gentle reminder from our sponsors:y :y



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9kxZtLY5p4

;D ;D

Like most National Anthems, a bloody good tune but suspect lyrics (That includes ours BTW)

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Pitchfork wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:37:

Like most National Anthems, a bloody good tune but suspect lyrics (That includes ours BTW)

Indeed so PF, the devil always resides in the detail ;) ;) :y

Desperate Den wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:56:

Pitchfork wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:37: Like most National Anthems, a bloody good tune but suspect lyrics (That includes ours BTW) Indeed so PF, the devil always resides in the detail ;) ;) :y

I rather like the bit about crushing rebellious Scots. In fact, it's the best bit.

Ah so refreshing it makes ya wanna watch The Dam Busters or The Great Escape dont it???? ;D ;D ;D

wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:58:

Desperate Den wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:56: Pitchfork wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:37: Like most National Anthems, a bloody good tune but suspect lyrics (That includes ours BTW) Indeed so PF, the devil always resides in the detail ;) ;) :y I rather like the bit about crushing rebellious Scots. In fact, it's the best bit.

Our Leader, Bonnie Prince Alex Sammond would wipe the floor with you :)

MF wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 20:27:

wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:58: Desperate Den wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:56: Pitchfork wrote on 24. Dec 2009 at 17:37: Like most National Anthems, a bloody good tune but suspect lyrics (That includes ours BTW) Indeed so PF, the devil always resides in the detail ;) ;) :y I rather like the bit about crushing rebellious Scots. In fact, it's the best bit. Our Leader, Bonnie Prince Alex Sammond would wipe the floor with you :)

I reckon I could have him but, please, not the proclaimers. I surrender.