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Subject:Re: EuroEnglish... From:Peter Jones <Holtec -at- COMITY -dot- DEMON -dot- CO -dot- UK> Date:Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:20:31 +0100
In message , Mathena, Michael <MMathena -at- SPHERECOM -dot- COM> writes
>> Try zis one !
>>
>> Subject: EuroEnglish...
>>
>> 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).
I deeply resent this miss use of the term for the European currency (see
we can get upset too if we try hard).
<snip dreadful slur on our beloved European Union, They are watching me,
run, run for your lives...>
