http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_foreign_words
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2006-07-30 05:46:53 · 21 answers · asked by digilook 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
neither,its tyrannical insanity
2006-07-30 05:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is very similar to the people who support English being made the national language in the United States. Here we worry about the Mexican/Spanish language taking over... there they worry about Western languages taking over.
There, they can just announce the decision. Here it must pass both the Senate and Congress, then be signed into law by the President. Laws that drastic don't usually make it in a free society, though it has been tried. When they do, the Supreme Court eventually, siding on the weight of freedom, overturns it.
Extremism of any kind is a type of insanity.
2006-07-30 13:16:20 · answer #2 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is Iranian hatred of the West taken to draconian extremes. Next goes televisions and radios and anything that comes from the West. Oh wait a minute. Not so. They will keep the stuff from the West that benefits them, and get rid of the piddly stuff in order to control the masses better. They will strain out the minuscule and allow the major. With the minuscule they will micro-manage the people. You can't have free thinkers running around Iran, now can you? So with one new speak announcement, their leader accomplishes two things. He gets in good with the Arabs with his anti-west diatribe, and he gains tighter control of the people. Now ordering a pizza becomes a capital crime. Now you have to be careful because neighbors will report you for using forbidden words. It is not long until the populace is well cowed and well controlled. Insane? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The wickeder you get, the more unreasonable you get.
2006-07-30 13:03:55 · answer #3 · answered by pshdsa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is more of a political-social thing than religious. Most cultures resist the insertion of foreign words and phrases into their language, as this is seen as diluting the "purity" of the language or of luring young people away from their native culture to embrace foreign ways. This has happened in America, too, when, during WWII, hamburgers were called "liberty patties" by some because of the stigma attached to Germany and its language. Such incidents are rare in the States, however. We're actually pretty quick to adopt words from other languages, and many other countries have adopted words that we invented simply because there is no equivalent in their own tongue.
2006-07-30 13:04:00 · answer #4 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are differing reasons why one would make such laws - you can be trying to maintain the historical integrity of a language or trying to prevent the encroachment of the cultures from which loan words come, or you could be doing it to protest. Freedom fries was number 3, and this article seems to be reflecting a combination of reasons 2 and 3 while French seems to base itself in number 1 wiht a touch of 2 mixed in.
read this entry and the comments to see
http://superfrenchie.com/?p=445
2006-07-30 12:53:18 · answer #5 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but I still call them french fries, anyhow, don't you? In America, I can do that, because we have "freedom fries"!
What is even more frightening are some of the news stories covered on down the page.
I pray no teenager is ever executed for saying "pizza" instead of "elastic loaves"...
2006-07-30 12:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's only a matter of time before the Bush administration and the Fundamentalist Christians usher in the same intolerance in our own classrooms.
2006-07-30 12:53:15 · answer #7 · answered by All gods are useless 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's evidence of a medieval theocracy's increasingly hysterical attempts to control a mostly-young, highly-westernized population. Of course it will fail. But a lot of people will have to suffer in the process.
2006-07-30 12:53:58 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is no more or less nuts than "freedom fries", as others have already pointed out.
You might be intrigued & horrified to learn where the whole notion "Fundamentalism" and interpreting scripture as literal comes from. I urge you to google it!
2006-07-30 12:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's a bit extreme and I don't think it's very tactfull but I would say it's more xenophobia fueled by western nations bombing their neighbors and such.
2006-07-30 12:51:48 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. Noodle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the Japaneses did the same with some foreign words like money is said"honorable paper"
2006-07-30 12:54:20 · answer #11 · answered by hawkeyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋