11 Sept 2010

WEEKEND FUNNIES - Euro English


With Gattina & Shakira.

Just do a funny post, something which makes us laugh that's the most important.

And of course there also is


here at Me & My Memes

To explain the text underneath you have to know that in my family we are real Europeans probably one of the first families.

I am German because my passport says so, but I live in Belgium since 51 years and am Belgian by choice. Mr. G. is Italian also according to his passport, but he too lives since over 40 years in Belgium but is still Italian. Our son has both nationalities. He is German because of his mother and Italian because of his father. However he choose to be German for practical purposes, as he travels often, Germans have the reputation to be honnest and correct but behind every Italian is a hidden Mafia member.

My DIL is dutch. Now to the languages : Mr. G. and I speak German together, with our son we speak french. When our DIL is with us we all speak English, because the young couple speaks English together, as she doesn't speak French and he doesn't speak Dutch. Now to the little Grandson who will arrive in November. He will be German and Dutch, speaking French and dutch, but no German and no Italian as he should according to his fathers passports.

That's why I think this is the ideal solution for all Europeans :

"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 negotiations, her Majesty 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 reseive this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.


There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent 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 been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgraful, and they would go.


By the forth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "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.


After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trobls or difikultis and evrivum vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru !"


YESSSSS !

10 Sept 2010

FRIDAY's FAVE FIVE



more participants at Susanne at Living to tell the Story.

1. On Monday I met my new Aqua Gym group and it was very nice ! We had a lot of fun, we were only 5, and I had a lot of room for swimming between the exercises After working the lower part of the body we get a massage with a cold water jet (shiver) and then after working the upper part another massage but in the water. I love to swim, although I don't like water in my face !

2. After the sunny weekend it had started to rain again, which made me stay inside, I just went to my favorite book shop, which only sells used books and this in all languages ! I bought 3, one in German, one in French and one in English. Now I have enough to read ! I love to read in my bed before I switch off the light.

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Mr. G. had bought two big bags of bark to put in our garden. I put them along the entrance. Underneath I had put a plastic so that weeds can't grow. It's very easy to entertain. As usual Arthur is my model to present things, he is also the one who digs there and spreads the bark all over !

4. Rain is not only unpleasant but it is also dangerous for your wallet ! To get out of the house I went to the "Carrefour" store, there was a big sale going on, because the store will be closed. We actually have two Carrefours in Waterloo, and apparently the management thought it was too much. As there was 30 to 50 % on all prices I couldn't resist to buy some baby stuff for little grandson to come. It's not my fault it is the fault of the rain ! When the sun is shining I don't go in shops !!



A little play mat in form of a cute hippo



and some indispensable things, like a little lamb and kitty to cuddle and stars to put over the bed.

5. The best thing I did this week was visiting the exposition of one of the most famous cartoonists in Belgium "Kroll" ! He is absolutely great especially when it comes to the more then complicated politics in this little country.



The Waterloo exposition building from outside



and inside.

I took some pictures of his cartoons. Of course most of them concerned the Belgian politicians and the King who plays the role of an arbiter. But I selected a few just to show you what he does and translated the text for you.















I think it was the first exposition in my whole life where all people were laughing like mad !