EU adopting English as the official language?
EU adopting English as the official language?
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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 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 zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a rel 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.
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 zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a rel 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.
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Meihem In Ce Klasrum, by Dolton Edwards, first published in 1946
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Then there are we Californians who are being increasingly pressured to dump English in favor of Spanish. It is becomimg more and more a requisite for attaining jobs.
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I will mercifully punt on and ignore any discussion about the prevailing environments and their causes. Another discussion, another more suitable place.
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What I hate is for the government of the United States to spend a single penny of my tax dollars to accommodate people who don't speak English--it is wasteful and counter productive. Assimilation of all the cultures of the world into US society has made us so much stronger than we ever could have been otherwise. Pandering to individuals who haven't bothered to take the first step towards assimilation is a perfect way to sow the seeds of this country's destruction.
I don't want to see Spanish versions of any government document or sign. I don't want to see schools teaching non-language courses in Spanish. This is the US, and the price of admission is learning English. Each deviation from that is tearing the very fabric of the country to shreds.
One thing that makes me furious about today's stupid trends is that when the predominate immigrant population in California was Chinese, no one ever proposed printing tax forms or street signs in Mandarin.
David
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Anyway, street names in Chinese aren't always the same as street names in English. Something like Johnson Street may be known as Truck Depot Street in Chinese because there used to be a Truck Depot there 30 years ago. Even in the far east, a major road in Penang, Malaysia is known literally as Sultan's Car Breakdown Road - the road where a visiting Sultan's car broke down 10 years ago.
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Sounds like just desserts to me!
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Ysbytl
being two of my favourite welsh signs.
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There are sections of town here in Houston where the street signs are in Chinese... Not sure what dialect..
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West side of town Chinese
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Is US uptown the suburbs? Always wondered what Billy Joel was singing about. It is just a girl from the suburbs?
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As to Billy Joel?
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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AKA CBD; central business district
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If you ride the subways or cabs in Manhattan, the terms uptown and downtown refer to the direction of travel as well as general areas of the island. The term Mid-town can be misleading. It is not half way between the northern and southern tips of the island. The Mid-town tunnel is at 34th Street and the northern tip of the island is at 220th street.
The terms uptown and downtown also denote a class distinction. In Manhattan, uptown was where the rich people lived (upper west side) and downtown was where the poor people lived (lower east side.) I don’t think this distinction is true anymore although the terms are still used.
I think Billy Joel's use of "uptown girl" referred to an upper class rich girl.