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.” - Associated Press.A very funny rant by someone channeling Ahmadinejad on his "glorious linguistic jihad", via The New Yorker.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
No more English, once I am done speaking.
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