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Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?

...Paul ([email protected])

• From: "...Paul" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: How do you say "pizza" in Klingon?
• Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:24:13 -0700 (PDT)
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France has been doing this for a while...  The really got irked at the 
adoption of the phrase "email" and put out a political directive that the 
proper French term is something like "courrier electronique":

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/world/2003-07-18-french-email_x.htm

...Paul

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Steven Boozer wrote:

> Some time ago we were playing with this question on the list.  Today I read
> that the increasingly xenophobic mullahcracy in Iran is struggling with the
> same problem:
>
>   TEHRAN, Iran -- 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 in the 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. The government is less sensi-
>   tive about Arabic words, because the Quran is written in Arabic.
>
>   Among other changes, a "chat" will become a "short talk" and a
>   "cabin" will be renamed a "small room," according to the official
>   Web site of the academy.
>
>   (Cf. http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/)
>
> To tie this back to Klingon, SuStel once reported that:
>
>   At a {qep'a'} a few years ago, we asked Marc Okrand about this,
>   and he said that {chab} would work for this. The word means any
>   baked bread or crust sort of food. So, doughnuts are {chab},
>   turnovers are {chab}, and pizza is {chab}. Mince pie would be
>   {chab}. Bagels are {chab}. [...] {chab} doesn't equal "bread."
>
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>

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