Posted on 07/30/2006 7:11:00 AM PDT by Grendel9
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued a new order for the Persian language to be purged of foreign words that have crept into everyday usage, the country’s language watchdog said yesterday.
“President Ahmadinejad has issued a decree banning the use of foreign words and urging us to find substitutes for those words,” a spokesman for the Academy of Persian Language and Literature said.
He was confirming a report in the Hambestegi newspaper, which said the ultra-nationalist president “has obliged officials to use all cultural means to encourage and educate people to use accurate spoken and written Persian”.
The Persian Academy official insisted that the ruling was nothing new, however, citing frequent government orders in recent years to remove English words from the language.
In the past, the Persian Academy has coined terms to replace English words such as “helicopter” and “mobile phone”. Their new equivalents, already used by state media, are “rotating wings” and “companion phone”.
But the effort has also triggered many jokes, with one popular sitcom on state television coming up with the term “stretchy bite” as an alternative to “pizza”.
NOW do the Iranian people realize they were tricked into a gimmicky democratic election when they bought into this guy? Since when did Presidents issue decrees?
BTW, what did they replace the foreign word PHONE with? This should be a lark watching how they dream up substitute words for COMPUTER, LAPTOP, E-MAIL, TV, McDONALD'S WHOPPER, MICKEY MOUSE, MADONNA, ET AL.
Or trying to stop a nuclear meltdown at their reactor by crying "The hot breath of Allah is galloping upon the camel of doom!"
President is now "Stinky".
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!
Trying to help the Academy here:
Madonna: What's Persian for "The One Whose A$$ Keeps Getting Fatter and Fatter in Spite of Many Expensive Surgeries?"
If he was a real man, he'd ban helicopters, cell phones, laptops, TV's, etc. What a wuss...like changing the names of things is going to stop the influence they have. Moron. He's a whore like the rest of them. Uses the stuff, but won't use the general terms for them.
The first words to go will be, "human rights".
Allah isn't a persian word ;)
Or are Arab concepts excluded?
How very Frrrrrench of them.
Keep it up and you won't be here much longer.
Saddam Hussein.
The thing that makes English so wonderfully expressive is its ready acceptance of foreign words.
A very partial list of common English words which ultimately originate in Persian: azure, bazaar, chess, checkmate, caviar, lemon, lilac, magic, magi, orange, paradise, pistachio, popinjay, rook, rose, saphron, shawl, spinach, sugar, tiger, typhoon.
The Nazis (and the modern French) also engaged in this same kind of linguistic Vereinigung.
This is one big invite to the muzzie "faith police/death squads" to kick it into high gear.
In other words the vast majority of said "encouragment and education" will undoubtablly be at the end of a very big stick.
I wonder what "term" they use in place of "Iranian Leader AhmaNUTJOB was quoted earlier today as saying......"
Yep! That's it all right.
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