Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:45 pm   Reply with quote      

Hi Monica! How are you doing? I see nobody has talked to you for two weeks! How rude of them all!

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:45 pm   Reply with quote      

I'm doing great, how about you? Where do you see nobody has talked to you for two weeks?

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:46 pm   Reply with quote      

Not me, Monica. You! Nobody has talked to you for two weeks. Shame.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:46 pm   Reply with quote      

That is a rather sweeping generalization about people.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:47 pm   Reply with quote      

Not really, it's more like just looking at the date of the last post in your forum!

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:47 pm   Reply with quote      

Oh really? Interesting comparison.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:48 pm   Reply with quote      

Definitely! Umm... comparison to what, Monica?

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:48 pm   Reply with quote      

What makes you so certain. Er.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:48 pm   Reply with quote      

Er... E.R?

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:48 pm   Reply with quote      

Um.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:49 pm   Reply with quote      

Okay, Monica. I'll pop in again sometime. It was nice chatting with you again. Keep well. Bye.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:49 pm   Reply with quote      

Once more? Nice chatting with you too. Chat amongst yourselves.

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:51 pm   Reply with quote      

A few times more, probably. I'll leave you with a joke. Here goes:
"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 horible 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 kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas. "

Get it?

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:51 pm   Reply with quote      

Would you say two or three times? Oh there. Do you mean your name is 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 ? That was a long time ago. To me it is a bit of a surprise. "There you go again. "--Reagan

Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:53 pm   Reply with quote      

Probably more. On your second question, probably not. Glad to see you got the jist of it, though!