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Gamma Started conversation Mar 18, 2003
Oxford have released English 2.0 announcing it as "The Most Powerful, Flexible and robust language since American English!". New features include:
> Removal of all swear words
> All names now being with an uppercase letter
> English Police Introduced, headed by Commander Overseer, to arrest people who break the Laws of English
> At the request of over 16 million women, the description of "Diet" will be changed to "A strict eating program designed to slowly demolish the will of anyone!"
> Also the term Information Technology will be removed from general use and replaced with Technological Information Systems.
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Researcher 178815 Posted Mar 18, 2003
Sounds good - Will American systems be able to understand this complex new language, though?
By the way, many more people but me will visit your space, but its nice that you dedicated it to me, somehow.
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Researcher 178815 Posted Mar 18, 2003
Ah-ha! I understand this currently-browsing-h2g2-nickname-insertion-into-page business now! And I thought you were greeting me personally.
Ah well.
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Gamma Posted Mar 21, 2003
Indeed. Now go to your bedroom and think about what you've done!
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