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If it has a balanced or surplus foreign trade and is populated by white people who speak English, yes.

If it has a foreign trade deficit it will be subjected to economic hit men, and if it is populated by brown people or Russians, it will be subjected to the more old-fashioned kind of hit men.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed May 5th, 2010 at 09:39:07 PM EST
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JakeS:
If it has a balanced or surplus foreign trade and is populated by white people who speak English, yes

The Germans are going to have to work hard on projecting themselves as Angles and Saxons, then.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu May 6th, 2010 at 02:41:02 AM EST
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Europe English

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU 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 phase-in plan that would be 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 the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 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 ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage 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"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "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 yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!



The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu May 6th, 2010 at 02:48:57 AM EST
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finerly sumwun kun spel rite.

next: grama and sintaks. 2 masta langwidj iz tu masta de mynd!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu May 6th, 2010 at 05:40:34 AM EST
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You know, that's not such a bad idea.
by Zwackus on Thu May 6th, 2010 at 07:09:04 AM EST
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I love it.  It will also help with texting.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Thu May 6th, 2010 at 05:48:42 PM EST
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