I'll Have A Large "Elastic Loaf" With Sausage
Which in America is a large pizza or pie, but if you are in Iran they are called elastic loaves. Chat is now "short talk" and cabin will now be "small room". This is part of the Iranian governments plan to remove around 2,000 "Western" or foreign words from their vernacular.
(AP)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 Iran official news agency reported.I wonder if terrorist is still part of their language? Or have they turn that into something catchy or hip. Something that all the kids can get into!
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