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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 12:00 AM |
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Official europian language
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which heavily lobbied to be the official languauge and was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would be known as "EuroEnglish."
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 favor of the "k." This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased with the "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 horible mess of the silent "e's" in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
By the 4th yar, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and the "w" with "v."
During the fifz yar, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After ze fifz yar, ve vil hav a realy sensibl vriten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evryvun vil find it easy tu understand each ozer.
ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!
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Fenix
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posted April 16, 2004 12:09 AM |
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It's hard for me to believe it. Even if it's more practical, it looks ugly.
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angelito
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posted April 16, 2004 12:14 AM |
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This funny "internet story" has already been posted by Lord_Woock last year.
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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 12:19 AM |
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Well i guessed it was, its pretty old, oh well at least we have our fenix to laugh at 
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posted April 16, 2004 06:01 AM |
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This funny "internet story" has already been posted by Lord_Woock last year.
I was going to say that.
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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 06:13 AM |
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I was going to say that.
Speeking of spam.
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Celfious
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posted April 16, 2004 06:17 AM |
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And should they keep letter X or spell out eks?
a system which is easy to speak, and spell with no complications should be what we humans are lookgint twoards.
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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 06:46 AM |
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Well such language already exist. Its serbian/croatian.
They (we) have 30 latters and those 30 letters are always read in the same way, no complication, no duble letters, no mixing of letters just to get one sound ( like the english "the")......the only problem is that serbian/croatian is only used by serbians/croatians 
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Wiseman
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posted April 16, 2004 08:08 AM |
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Well we didi change our language pretty late, so we dropped
a good deal of the old traditional unpractical stuff.Too bad
we didn`t change grammar
Anyway the thing is that the Bosnians speak the same,
and soon when/if Montenegro becomes independant they will
speak Montenegran , which will of course be the same language.So we come to a very interesting conclusion
that most people from ex-YU territories will be defacto
polyglot speaking fluently Serbian ,Croatian ,Bosnian and Montenegran. That is without English whom everybody knows at least little bit....
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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 08:14 AM |
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Yeah we rock
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Fenix
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posted April 16, 2004 10:52 AM |
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I agree. Go ex Yugoslav grammar
(And you can't laugh at me, I said it's hard for me to believe it)
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Svarog
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posted April 16, 2004 04:45 PM |
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So we come to a very interesting conclusion
that most people from ex-YU territories will be defacto
polyglot speaking fluently Serbian ,Croatian ,Bosnian and Montenegran.
Yeah, the Balkan circus in practice! There should be one name for these dialects of the same language - Yugoslavian. That way we'll keep the famous name forever.  Sta kazete?
(Looks like my country's the only one "proudly" keeping the term, though "former yugoslav republic" doesn't seem that joyful  )
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Shirastro
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posted April 16, 2004 07:19 PM |
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Scerca sreca radost......uzivancija
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Wiseman
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posted April 16, 2004 09:39 PM |
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Neee samo ne Ren&Stimpy.
I second that Svarog.If we live in separate countrys atleast we could officialy speak the same language....
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Fenix
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posted April 16, 2004 11:36 PM |
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Serbs and Croatians would hardly agree to speak a mixture. Our nations are not in best relationships. Often hatred seems to be more powerful than struggle for peace. In region of Vukovar, near the border they hard live together. Understandable, after a century of conflict.
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Svarog
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posted April 17, 2004 12:34 AM |
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What century of conflict are you talking about? It was more like a decade. We all lived in "brotherhood and unity" in the past second half of the XX century. The best times in the history of our countries.
And what do I hear about hostilities there? **** them! What matters is what you think. Should ex-Yugoslavia have a common name for the language (except Slovenia and Macedonia), or let this sharade continue with four different names of practically the same thing?
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Fenix
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posted April 17, 2004 10:15 AM |
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Serbs and Croatian are in conflict for a century. Yugoslavia was not appreciated in Croatia. Our people wanted liberty after 1300 years.
And these languages are not the same thing. They have always been different in many aspects of grammar and orthography.
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posted April 17, 2004 10:17 AM |
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This funny "internet story" has already been posted by Lord_Woock last year.
Who's the man? 
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Shirastro
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posted April 17, 2004 10:48 AM |
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This funny "internet story" has already been posted by Lord_Woock last year.
Who's the man?
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And to all ex-yugoslavians, stop beffore its too late, we dont want to start such an argue here, dont we?
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Fenix
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posted April 17, 2004 12:22 PM |
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Of coourse we don't. I just say what is the situation, I also think this hostality is sad.
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