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Offline PanzerKnacker

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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #765 on: 01-06-2012, 11:06:01 »
Because it is a civilized country no?

If capital punishment is prohibited, is exiling somebody classifies as capital punishment?

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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!

Fourth Reich masterplan as pre-sighted by Bouras!!!!  ;D


Funny, but sounds french when I read it out loud xD
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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #766 on: 01-06-2012, 13:06:51 »
Read it in Schwarzenegger's voice and it sounds German.

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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #767 on: 01-06-2012, 13:06:04 »
Well, I think it sounded Austrian...

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« Reply #768 on: 01-06-2012, 13:06:54 »
Well, I think it sounded Austrian...

Because Austrians speak Austrian? :)

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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #769 on: 01-06-2012, 13:06:43 »
According to the text only the spelling changes, not the pronunciation, so it sounds like regular English or you're reading it wrong.

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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #770 on: 01-06-2012, 13:06:58 »
Yes, the same argument can be applied to whether Hitler is a German or Austrian  ;D



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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #771 on: 01-06-2012, 14:06:55 »
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Fourth Reich masterplan as pre-sighted by Bouras!!!!  ;D
Funny, but sounds french when I read it out loud xD

No it sounds more like Günther Oettinger speaking English to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RrEQ8Ovw-Q

And that guy is a Eu Commissioner  ::)

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Yay, let's hate Austria ! I feel strange when someone says those evil Austrains speak German. Go to Tirol, listen to the people speaking "German" and you know they don't !
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« Reply #772 on: 01-06-2012, 14:06:28 »
According to the text only the spelling changes, not the pronunciation, so it sounds like regular English or you're reading it wrong.


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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #773 on: 01-06-2012, 16:06:17 »
@ Zoologic

Yay, let's hate Austria ! I feel strange when someone says those evil Austrains speak German. Go to Tirol, listen to the people speaking "German" and you know they don't !

Let's add fuel to the fire!

We know to whom Tyrol really belongs to  ;)

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« Reply #774 on: 01-06-2012, 18:06:10 »
Yes. Tyrol got independend in the 13. century. Bavaria became part of the Reich at its foundation 1871. I also understand the foundation of Germany as a Prussian and Middle German initiative. Bavaria even had special rights in the early Reich and still has a own "constitution" today (it just has a symbolic value though) Furthermore, Bavarians are suspect to me even nowadays.

So, "NEIN": No fuel added ! Keep the fire on Austria  :P

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« Reply #775 on: 01-06-2012, 19:06:12 »
Eduard khil has sufferd a major stroke and is now in a coma :(

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« Reply #776 on: 01-06-2012, 19:06:17 »
Oh! He haven't made his Trololo world tour. Let's hope for the best for him :-\

Anyway,

Yeah, Austria... I wonder why such a landlocked country could become a majorpower in past Europe. I thought it was because of the Habsburg dynasty, which has vast amount of wealth and power amongst other chunk of territories across the world. Even after the German states united in 1871, Austro-Hungarian empire, despite being stripped from much of the peak of Habsburg dynasty's territory, was still viewed as European major powers, along with Great Britain, Russia, and France.

Were they:
Replacing the Ottoman empire as major powerhouse in the Balkan region, while the former empire descends into abyss?

Helped by the Danube river economic activities, just like how a tiny country like the Netherlands managed to build its economies by trading through seaports?

Hitchhiking the German hegemony, because they somewhat speak the same language?  :D

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« Reply #777 on: 01-06-2012, 19:06:28 »


Steyr mannlicher M95. Nuff said
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« Reply #778 on: 01-06-2012, 19:06:04 »
@ Zoologic

Uh, that question is in depth. THe point with the Ottomans plays a major role I think.

They nearly defeated Austria and were in front of Vienna 2 times. When Vienna falls, Austria does. In the Great Turkish War the Ottomans were defeated though and Austria was able to become a major power in Europe around 1700.

Until that, Austria only fought defensive wars against the Ottomans and after that they started to join offensive wars with Russia or something and just abandoned the plan of annihilating the Ottoman Empire, because there were also a ton of wars between the Ottomans and Russia and they wanted to keep the balance of mights and keep Russia away.

In the end the geographical position of Austria made it so important, because it was one of the 2 gates to Europe for the Ottomans. But Russia is a large country and they failed there as much against Austria. Vienna was in range for the Ottomans and so important for Austria that they always tried to conquer it.

This helped Austria to get from a regular country to a important country, since they got territory after the Great Turkish War and the respect of other nations by defeating the Ottomans or just loosing a bit territory to them, but never Vienna.

That's my thought about that. My knowledge about that is not too detailed, and I dunno how the Wars between the countries usually ended. I just know that Vienna never fell and there were a ton of different wars and Austria cam out on top in the end.

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Re: Revolting Uniting
« Reply #779 on: 01-06-2012, 20:06:59 »
Indeed, and Austria, landlocked? Don't make me laugh. At the height of their empire, during the 18th and 19th century, Austria controlled a large part of the Adriatic coast, partly due to the Ottoman losses, as you said, and partly due to the Vienna Congress of 1815, there it was established that Austria would gain control of the regions of Venice and Milan, previously French.
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