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Originally posted by IronstarIt's just different, that's all. You're starting from scratch, but apart from that, it's easy enough. I learned for a holiday i was going on, and had some friends help me. . .I've never studied it in school or anything, but i had enough to get by while i was there, and it's great to see the locals face's when they see you've made the effort.
Cool....Is it hard to learn?....I've always wanted to learn Mandarin or Japanese or something new.....I already know Spanish, German, and Latin, (and some Greek), but I've never learned anything outside of the Indo-European family....
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundThat's cool...I've heard the grammar in Asian languages is a snap, it's just the characters that would probably throw me.....
It's just different, that's all. You're starting from scratch, but apart from that, it's easy enough. I learned for a holiday i was going on, and had some friends help me. . .I've never studied it in school or anything, but i had enough to get by while i was there, and it's great to see the locals face's when they see you've made the effort.
Originally posted by huckleberryhound2nd posting.[maybe more?]
i believe it was supposed to be used as the official language of the EEC, but it was a complete farce.
The implementation of the English language as the official language of the European Community.
"You will be pleased to know that The European Commission has just
announced an agreement, whereby English will be the official language
of the EU rather than German which 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
favour 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 replaced 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 enkorage the removal of double letters, which have
always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the
horible mes of the silent "e" in the language is disgraceful, and it
should go away.
By the 4th year, peopl 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 similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer
kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, 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!! And zen ve vil tak over ze vorld!!
Easier than esperanto....or chinese. 🙂
