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G.i.A.m.
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posted 02-07-2002 10:44 PM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
got it thru E-mail aint it great.


strg-c /strg-v action

I got this from a friend, and I am sending this just for fun of it.
Subject: Euro-english



New spelling changes announced.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will
be the official language of the European Union rather than German,which is
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 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
the "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 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 horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer 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 after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil 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. Efishenzi vil triumf. Zen ve vil rul ze vorld!!

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Bugsy
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posted 02-07-2002 10:54 PM     Profile for Bugsy   Author's Homepage   Email Bugsy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
lol, that's just hilarious

at first I thought this topic was gonna be about the euro in britain

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G.i.A.m.
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posted 03-07-2002 10:37 PM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
yeah it is realy cool when I started reading it I was oh what a shame they choosed english again but it was a great laught.

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AKATT
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posted 03-07-2002 10:45 PM     Profile for AKATT   Email AKATT     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
had me going there GiAm. Right now tho i'm for the Euro cos of the economic benefits I REALLY don't want to see the Pound go. It's like a bit of the Nation's gonna be lost once the we lose our currency. So how's things in Deutschland? has the Euro taken over entirely yet?

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the metalman
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posted 03-07-2002 10:45 PM     Profile for the metalman   Email the metalman     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
heh i got that emial a WHILE back...sent from a friend in asia

it was an interesting read


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Bomu
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posted 04-07-2002 06:53 PM     Profile for Bomu   Author's Homepage   Email Bomu     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
Heh heh, very good. I wonder who thinks up these whacky emails?

I'm not too fussed about a single european currency. I'd love to see a world currency tho. It'd make buying and selling on ebay a hell of a lot easier ofr one.. As long as the notes are cool colours

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G.i.A.m.
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posted 14-07-2002 08:56 PM     Profile for G.i.A.m.   Email G.i.A.m.     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
argh lazy me never replyed, again.

Personaly I think the Euro has definitv some good sides.

One is the minimum math you have to do when it comes to buying online or in other countrys (dollar 1-1, yen 100-1 most european countrys the same).

Another good thing is, that now online stores probably add paying with euros.
This way they reach alot country's(new customers) with one currency, which means no exchange taxes from your bank(allready had the luck when I ordered something from japan :cool .

I guess travelling across europe is easier too.

For being nostalgic, it is just money.
It doesnt matter how it looks like(tho the euro doesn't look that bad overall), or what its name is.
The only thing important is what I get for what I have .

btw. I start to quickly recognize the coins inside my wallet from the color and shape.

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Bugsy
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posted 14-07-2002 09:59 PM     Profile for Bugsy   Author's Homepage   Email Bugsy     Send New Private Message   Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote
hehe, I still can't tell the difference between 1, 2, and 5 cent pieces! They all look the same aside from a slight size difference >_<

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Desert Rain

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