pizza, elastic loaves,
Dining, Mahmoud ahmadinejad style
By Judi McLeod
Monday, July 31, 2006
The next time you notice that Iranian President Mahmoud ahmadinejad looks like he's lost a little weight on CNN, it's probably because he no longer chows down on those evil "elastic loaves".
"Elastic loaves" are pizzas in the lexicon of President ahmadinejad.
ahmadinejad has ordered the minions in his government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language.
"The presidential decree, issued last week, orders all government agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian academy, the Iran official news agency reported." (HoustonChronicle.com, July 29, 2006),
and just to think the mainstream media thought americans had it pretty bad with President George W. Bush spying on them.
The Persian academy got to work right away parsing out Western words from the language.
Don't ever play Scrabble with members of the academy, who have 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 some of the changed words is "chat" which now becomes a "short talk", as opposed to one of ahmadinejad's many rants.
"Cabin" will now be renamed a "small room", and don't anybody in Iran ever utter the word `boudoir' or `salon'.
a 'tent' must still be a tent in desert-rich Iran, and a `camel' has always been a workhorse.
anybody with just a little imagination could give President ahmadinejad a hand with his crusade to ethnic cleanse the Persian language.
Your garden variety `Ford Esplanade' now could be called a `boy toy', and a `nuclear weapon', a `bigger boy toy'.
Would the mercurial ahmadinejad be miffed to know that when it comes to changing the language, the Western feminists got there first?
In the West, a `chairman' is now a `chairperson` or just a plain `chair'.
When the feminists had their way in emasculating the politically-incorrect language in Canada, the western province known as `Manitoba' almost became `Personitoba'.
It doesn't much matter what you call it, "elastic loaves" are about as common in america as paved roads.
Meanwhile, while ahmadinejad may be El Presidente on home turf, to the free world he's a terrorist-loving, Jew-hating tinpot dictator, who'll gorge himself on pizza so long as it's called "elastic loaves".
Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
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