Mahdi Fancies Himself a Cunning Linguist
"kindly drop the vernacular"*
“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.
Examples:
helicopter rotating wings
mobile phone companion phone
pizza stretchy bite [stretchy loaves]
cabin small room
chat short talk
North Korea useful fuels
*10 Points to the first to cite that quote.
Posted by Claire on 07/29 at 09:35 AM
Heh. The French tried this language purity crap in the past.
We can see how well it has worked out for them.
Rob
Posted by on 07/31/06 at 10:59 AMKindly drop the vernacular
The first place I recall hearing that line was an episode of the Three Stooges
Posted by on 07/31/06 at 11:59 AMhttp://www.sondrak.com/archive/goldstar.jpg Opinionated Vogon !!!!!
Posted by Claire on 07/31/06 at 01:14 PM
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