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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_sendername">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"Fonken, Gael M. [<a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a>]" <<a href="mailto:foga0301@stcloudstate.edu">foga0301@stcloudstate.edu</a>></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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Subject: "Humor" [EN]</span><span></span></p>
<br><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">From: Heinrich Becke<b>r</b> <<a href="mailto:heinrich.becker@gmx.net" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">heinrich.becker@gmx.net</span></a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language"</span></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">From Heinrich Becker:</span></p><div style="margin-left:40px">
</div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">Is this a joke I got from Oregon - then it is a good one - or does anybody have serious informations of this matter?</span></p>
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</div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby
<i>English</i> will be the official language of the European Union rather than <i>
German</i>, which was the other possibility. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">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".…</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099"><br>
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</div><p style="margin-left:40px" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#000099">From: R. F. Hahn <[log in to unmask]><br>
Subject: Humor<br>
Hi, Heinrich!<br>
This "joke" has been sent around for many years, if not decades, now. I guess it sprang from anti-EU sentiments.<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Greetings all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
I’m back on line listening in again. Yes, this joke comes around the
block once and awhile… and I enjoy it every time as if I had not heard
it before. This time, I’m
in the midst of reading a book about the on-going orthography debates
in Germany called
<b><i><a href="http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=4uCRUGuEU9cC&oi=fnd&pg=PR6&dq=%22Spelling+Trouble%22&ots=WlPDYg850E&sig=qGVT8D9_k9IK2_ms3mZL8UAo4RY" target="_blank">Spelling trouble?: language, ideology and the reform of German orthography</a></i>,</b> 2005, which
puts a new light on the joke. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> I begin to wonder
<i>what finer-grained meaning this joke might have had</i> at one time <u>in the lowlands</u>
since Low Saxon and other lowlander groups exist someplace in between
English and High German. Not sure which side of this supposed
“English-German” divide to imagine
myself as a descendent of Platt speakers from the lower Rhine-Dutch
border. Perhaps some of you know more about the lingering issues here…
Who exactly are the ones pushing for establishing uniform spelling codes
of any type. What happens to people in the
middle? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gael Fonken</span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">St. Cloud Minnesota, USA.
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