BRITAIN was told to 'speak German' like the rest of Europe last night.
One of Angela Merkel's closest allies demanded that Britain be 'less selfish' towards the EU, despite being outside the single currency and consider levying a Europe-wide financial tax to help the ailing eurozone.
Volker Kauder claimed the whole of Europe was now speaking German by following Angela Merkel's leadership and so should Britain.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy.
Bogart_1960: As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
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 replaced 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 replaced 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.
Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would 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 kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst place....
Brannigan70Yellow Brick Road , Manchester, Mayo Ireland2,339 posts
Adalstef: BRITAIN was told to 'speak German' like the rest of Europe last night.
One of Angela Merkel's closest allies demanded that Britain be 'less selfish' towards the EU, despite being outside the single currency and consider levying a Europe-wide financial tax to help the ailing eurozone.
Volker Kauder claimed the whole of Europe was now speaking German by following Angela Merkel's leadership and so should Britain.
tomcatwarneOcean City, Plumouth, Devon, England UK17,106 posts
truheart1941: .......morning Tom.......no the german people are all right.......but like us, are led by morons.......I would sooner see Britain....sink into the sea......then having to be ruled by EU......laws.....it may be hard at first, but we will survive........jmo.
ObscuritanMelbourne, Victoria Australia1,284 posts
truheart1941: .......morning Tom.......no the german people are all right.......but like us, are led by morons.......I would sooner see Britain....sink into the sea......then having to be ruled by EU......laws.....it may be hard at first, but we will survive........jmo.
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One of Angela Merkel's closest allies demanded that Britain be 'less selfish' towards the EU, despite being outside the single currency and consider levying a Europe-wide financial tax to help the ailing eurozone.
Volker Kauder claimed the whole of Europe was now speaking German by following Angela Merkel's leadership and so should Britain.