Saturday, July 29, 2006
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.
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