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> The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has
> been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European
> communications, 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
> 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 typewriter 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
> persent 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 enkourage 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 fiz year, se 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 year, ve vil hav a reli
> sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b no more trubls or difikultis and evrium
> vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Germany 1 - England 5
The funniest thing about that monumental win in Munich was Carsten Janker's comments before the match. He said something like "The goals will flow for Germany like a volcano."
What a complete moron......
I was going to find it and post it here but I couldn't find it though!
(England 5-1 Germany :P)