Posted on 06/19/2014 10:52:12 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
In the near future, if two Muscovites go for a biznes-lanch, they could be fined. If they then order a gamburger, they could be fined again. And if they get out their smartfon to check their Feisbuk, there could be serious trouble.
This, at least, is the future envisaged by a new law that would introduce fines for the inappropriate use of foreign loan words in Russian. The draft law was suggested by a group of MPs from the Liberal Democrat party, a nationalist force in parliament and often responsible for scandalous or outlandish parliamentary initiatives.
The law has been redrafted over the past year and will be examined by the Duma next month, after being approved this week by the parliament's culture committee. It proposes fines starting from 2,000 roubles (£34) for individuals, rising to 50,000 roubles (£850) for legal entities using foreign words inappropriately in public.
The law proposes fines for those who "use foreign words and expressions which do not meet the norms of literary Russian and which have commonly used equivalents in literary Russian".
"We are sick of these Americanisms and Anglicisms," said Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the party's leader, when proposing the law last year. "We will make a list of words that are forbidden from use when there are normal Russian words … It should be on the table of every journalist,TV and radio presenter, teacher, professor and writer."
Dmitry Gudkov, one of the few anti-Kremlin MPs still in parliament, told a Russian paper he would not support the bill, and said lawmakers were currently engaged in a "championship of idiotism" to see who could suggest the most ridiculous laws.
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It’s about half the Russian language these days
Good Luck
France tried this too, back in the ‘80s.
Nuff said.................
and said lawmakers were currently engaged in a "championship of idiotism" to see who could suggest the most ridiculous laws.
Is this like the World Cup where the best of their legislative idiots will go up against ours in the finals?
Same must be going on here in the USA.
I don’t think those words mean what you think they mean.
Yes, I remember. How very French of them.
Of course, the language of Russian royalty was French so this approach is not unexpected.
Yeah, Vladimir Zhirinovsky... I had wondered what happened to him. Wasn’t he a Fascist or Ultra-nationalist back in the Yeltsin days?
Bill Clinton gave us SEKUHARA (sexual harassment).
The nazi mass murderer Putin is carrying out Zhirinovsky’s nazi agenda.
I believe you are right. He was a real thorn in the side to Yeltsin.
CC
In Iraq they’ll cut your head off.
PC, it’s not just local any longer.
Well I guess I won’t use the Russianism “na levo” any more.
“Yeah, Vladimir Zhirinovsky... I had wondered what happened to him. Wasn’t he a Fascist or Ultra-nationalist back in the Yeltsin days?”
Not Fascist. No, he is a radical hardcore Communist as well as Ultra-nationalist. Call him anything you like, I call him Bad News.
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