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  1. #16
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    I just have to post my favourite again.

    An interesting article highlighting British power over Germany.

    The European Union have recently announced that finally an agreement hasbeen reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.

    As part of negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and as such has accepted a five year phased plan to implement what will become known as EuroEnglish .

    In the first year , 's' will be used instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly sivil servants will resieve this news with joy . Also the hard 'c' will be replased with 'k' . Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter .

    There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased by 'f'. This will make words like 'fotograf' 20 per sent shorter .

    In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they wil go .

    By the fourth year , peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' by 'z' and 'w'
    by 'v'

    During ze fifz year , ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou', and similar changes vud of kore be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters .

    After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

    Ze drem vil finali kum tru !



    "I don't know which weapons will be used in the third World war, but in the fourth, it will be sticks and stones" --- Albert Einstein.


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    I speak two languages....

    ENGLISH and BAD ENGLISH (to quote The Fifth Element !

    Oh yeah, I also know a smattering of curse words from time spent in the school library looking up naughty words in the French and German dictionaries!

    And another one ...

    "I can't bear to be bare around the bear"

    Mum to two little humans, a very vocal 14 year old Ragdoll, and a super energetic and snuggly rescue kitten.

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    English

    When I was learning English as a child I wouldn't pronounce some of the words because they were naughty in German slang-people was one and swans another-both had to do with men's anatomy!
    My mother still kids me about that and I'm 51!!
    Artists and dogs are not meant to be understood;merely adored!!!

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    Mary had a little lamb. She also had a bear.
    I’ve often seen her little lamb, but I’ve never seen her ****.


    "Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
    it can only be attained through understanding."
    Albert Einstein

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    Re: Re: Hmmmm

    Has anyone heard how the pope would pronounce blood?
    Originally posted by Cataholic
    wine???
    LOL!!

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    Lol yea the English language is kind of confusing.Take the word February for instance.Not pronounced exactly the way it's spelled.
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