I couldn’t make this stuff up: “KLAP (Keep Language Above Politics) is the hope for the world.” via BlogCritics.org

I was being far more prophetic than I thought when I wrote “Immigrant Foods Threaten America” on Blogcritics. This is the power of words. We can only save the world from a fall into some kind of Mahmoud in Wonderland by opening borders freely to words of all origins. [snip]Answers Please has pages of words of foreign origin organized by the languages of their origin. It is a fine resource for those who will be joining the KLAP movement. (MORE)

Oh. My. Goodness. Sign me up.

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,” state media reported Saturday.

The presidential decree, issued earlier this week, orders all governmental agencies, newspapers and publications to use words deemed more appropriate by the official language watchdog, the Farhangestan Zaban e Farsi, or Persian Academy, the Irna official news agency reported.

The academy has 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. source

Originally posted at Right Truth