London - The government has announced that Polish has been included as Englands 2nd official language. Polish,commonly the language used by eastern Europeans, has been adopted on a recommendation from the department of arts and culture and endorsed by the Pan English Languages Board (PanELB). In a late parliamentary session on Thursday, the government legislated Polish into the English Languages Bill (B 23—2013). "Polish fits the criteria for a national language," said Tom Ellis, head of the National Languages Expansion Task Team (NLETT) at PanELB. "It's now completely indigenous to England, spoken by a vast number of people across the country and can be seen in everyday use." PanELB was pleased with the legal framework, saying that the language was already in the common English lexicon. Street signage "We have even seen our users take the language to other social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. That's a lot of talking. said Sarah Rice, vice president of Communications at PanELB. The first street signs in Polish should be ready once tenders have been awarded. Reports suggest that three companies from Poland have been included on the preferred bidders' list. "We are going to start with street signage as this will have an immediate and visible impact and then work towards enabling students to write their final year exams in Polish by November 2014," said UKEB. The department of education applauded the move that would allow learners fluent in Polish to communicate in a language they were more familiar with. "This move is about embracing the organic evolution of language and showing our youth that we are committed to speaking and listening to them in their language of choice," a departmental spokesperson said. "Poland is so proud that our homegrown language has been recognised as the critical part of Englands history and future. We look forward to working with government in weaving Polish into the very fabric of our society," Rice said. News24
Oh I hope it is piss take. I honestly do. However if it is not first two polish lessons FOC, afterwards tank of petrol per half an hour
Not true......... 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). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted 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 silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " 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 trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru.
Date not withstanding (yes, its April 1st) I'd welcome anything that normalised uptake of other languages within the UK, as its an area where we really do trail behind most of the world. In Texas almost all police officers speak English and Spanish, and most eastern Europeans speak three or four languages to a decent degree of proficiency. The truly sad thing is that I work with a girl who was a 100% a star student, she aced all of her GCSE and A levels. Her standard of spoken English is genuinely where I'd expect a 10 - 12 year olds to be. The really upsetting thing about this is that a former colleague of mine is from Poland. When he first came over to the UK he spoke virtually no English at all, four years later he speaks better English than most native speakers, especially A star girl.
In Texas and California (and I assume New Mexico and Arizona) the police "todos hablan español". They have to as half the population are illegal immigrants from Mexico :wink:
