The President of Iran keeps trying to set new standards for being crackernuts. Herein is the latest decree.
There are US Senators that would like to do this with English, of course. So let's not pretend to be smug. Let's just laugh until they can get the muzzle on.
The President of Iran is waaaaay behind the times. The French did this back before we were in high school. Hell, they have a whole ministry dedicated to wiping otu words like "le hot dog".
ReplyDeleteThe Icelanders too have committees dedicated to finding new words for new things, rather than importing English or other terms. Icelandic has changed little for 1000 years: apparently modern Icelanders can still read the Edda. I guess they love their language and want to preserve it - there are only 250,000 of them speaking it. It's worth remembering how many languages have been squashed altogether by English colonisation: around 300 on this continent (Australia) alone...
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