
Germany’s economic supremacy in today’s Europe (EU and EMU respectively) may not be anything to joke about. It’s a sheer fact.
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No matter how much the Perfidious Albion, France, Poland or Romania would be whining about it, there’s only one economic superpower in the EU.
.The topic is very interesting and – God willing – I would like to write more about it in 2011, especially as the ‘EMU crisis’ (or ‘euro crisis’, or whatever… – but still a ‘crisis’) is far from over.
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Until then, here’s an interesting joke that could well be about... Germany’s lobby in Brussels. And let us ignore for a while that the German language is in not position of challenging the supremacy of English yet.
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However, the joke (I thank a fellow blogger for sending it to me) it’s not completely far-fetched, as it may seem to some.
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Enjoy the joke (+ my not-so-spectacular pics from Berlin), and keep an eye on Germany! I’d say it’s too early to dismiss this country’s potential on the world’s stage.
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We’d better try to understand more this of country, and even learn German!
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Even before learning Chinese, I’d say that any European country not having at least several ‘platoons of intellectuals’ who could speak perfect German and perfect Russian has a severe handicap. Only God can spare that country of the cost of such ignorance!.
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“Euro-English”
(nothing but a joke, but bearing a ‘seed of truth’ like every joke :-)
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(nothing but a joke, but bearing a ‘seed of truth’ like every joke :-)
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As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as ‘Euro-English’.
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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..
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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.
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In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.
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Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent ‘e’-s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.
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By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘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.
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After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.
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Ze drem vil finali kum tru! Und ve vil al be speking German lik zey vunted in ze furst plas!
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