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Iran Prez: Turning Pizzas Into 'Elastic Loaves'
newsmax.com ^
| July 29, 2006
| newsmax.com staff
Posted on 07/29/2006 5:55:17 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as "pizzas" which will now be known as "elastic loaves," state media reported Saturday.
The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported.
The academy has introduced more than 2,000 words as alternatives for some of the foreign words that have become commonly used in Iran, mostly from Western languages. The government is less sensitive about Arabic words, because the Quran is written in Arabic.
Among other changes, a "chat" will become a "short talk" and a "cabin" will be renamed a "small room," according to official Web site of the academy.
© 2006 Associated Press.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; yeswehavenobananas
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oh brother.
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posted on
07/29/2006 5:55:18 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
To: ovrtaxt
"elastic loaves," Yer wot? Man's barmy. 'Is head's done in.
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posted on
07/29/2006 5:58:23 AM PDT
by
vimto
(Blighty Awaken!)
To: ovrtaxt
What did they change "Adolf Ahmonameanjihad, The Hitler of Or Time" to?
"Dear Leader" ?????
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posted on
07/29/2006 5:59:22 AM PDT
by
lumber1
(It is not what you do now, but what they will do later with what you've "done now" that matters.)
To: ovrtaxt
going-over-the-edge alert.
trust me, this man is fully capable of authorizing the lobbing of nukes.
To: ovrtaxt
All this talk of elastic loaves is making me hungry :)
To: ovrtaxt
Their version of the "Freedom Fries"?
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:00:57 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
To: ovrtaxt
Let me assume that "ALLAH" is not a Persian-origin word.
Clearly it must be purged from use in Iran with this latest Presidential pronouncment.
Brilliant!!
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:01:24 AM PDT
by
rod1
To: ovrtaxt
Welcome to China, citizens of Iran.
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:02:58 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: the invisib1e hand
Don't the frogs do the same sort of thing? With the rise of islime in that country, looks like it's turning into an Iranian satellite state.
To: ovrtaxt
And this dictum preserves the Iranian way....how?
Ethnic purity can carry anyone only so far, until total isolation sets in, and once cut loose from the constraints of what anyone else in the world thinks or says, you may ride off on that flying carpet, to "cuckoo-cloud-land". In that rarified atmosphere, the loss of oxygen tends to make one inattentive and unable to exercise ready judgment.
Perhaps that has happened to the Iranian leaders already.
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:03:21 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.)
To: ovrtaxt
What's Farsi for "Pizza Hut?"
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:03:34 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Constantine XI Palaeologus
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:04:13 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: ovrtaxt
And "respect for women" will become "put on your burkah,pig dog wife"
Emphasizing the "elastic", but where is the "loaf" part?
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:05:54 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: Constantine XI Palaeologus
I'll have an elastic loaf with everything ... hold the anchovies.
To: GretchenM
We had a Pizza last night, did not know I should have asked for an elastic loaf with extra cheese and sausage...;)
What a moron that nutjob is.
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:07:21 AM PDT
by
stopem
(God Bless the U.S.A the Troops who protect her, and their Commander In Chief !)
To: goldstategop
What's Farsi for "Pizza Hut?""Small room where Elastic Bread is made"?
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:07:42 AM PDT
by
alloysteel
(My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.)
testing link to photo
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:08:15 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: BunnySlippers
Dang, this thread is making me hungry ......... and incredibly paranoid.
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posted on
07/29/2006 6:08:15 AM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Constantine XI Palaeologus
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