EU & Sweden to Phase out Å, Ä and Ö (2007)

Nej det är inget skämt, utan helt sant, sedan alliansen kom till makten vid förra valet ville dom sakta men säkert ta bort dom svenska bokstäverna å ä och ö. Men detta inlägg från ett forum överdriver naturligtvis lite och kantrar på humorsidans vingliga verklighet.
Sweden's English-language paper, The Local, reported that in the interests of globalization and technological competitiveness Sweden's government was considering banning "complex letters" such as Å, Ä and Ö. Å would be replaced by AA, Ä by AE and Ö by OE. The Centre Party's Åsa Bäckström was quoted as saying, "Language is constantly changing and we must be prepared to meet the linguistic challenges of the modern world. Communication barriers are a hindrance to competitiveness, so we should do whatever we can - within reason - to eliminate them." However, the move was resisted by many, including the town council of Båstad, whose spokesman said, "We already have enough trouble with English-speakers who think the name of our town is amusing. If the Å becomes a regular A it will just make things worse. We might as well go the whole hog and include an R."
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Is there any interesting news from the Halal Meriet at the moment? Well, nothing new, it is business as usual other than than Djibouti. Djibouti? who gives a hoot about Djibouti. We are used to it. "We" attack our neighbors first and then "we" beg the UN to interfere and subsequently Mekhete.....

So, since everything seems to be normal in the Halal Meriet, enjoy the following satire:

After Euro-currency we will have Euro-English soon:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German,which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British 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 "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 "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 people 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 kam tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vonted in ze first plas.

PS: This is good news for us Eri-Germans, Eri-Swedish (is it Swedes?) and Eri-Dutch but of course a terrible news for our "Ex-compatriots" the Eri-Brits.


Have a pleasant weekend oops hav a plesant wik-end.
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