Iran Moves to Remove Anglicized Words
This little sidebar article talks about Iran's move to remove Americanized and Anglicized words from the Iranian vernacular. Although this is not earth shattering news, it is just one more telling action of Iranian leadership in an effort to purify their language and society from any Western and particularly English or American influences.
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"
We have seen this language purification action happen years before in France, but now with globalization, the perception of this particular action taken by the Iranians in light of all other world events smacks of anti-Americanism.
In the meantime, I'll just need to go to my "small room" [cabin] in the woods and eat my "elastic loaf" [pizza] alone.
