Ugggghhh. I saw a little bit of the wholesale burning of Turkmen, too. Right now (I am told) Turkmens over the age of 20 can get by in Persian and Arabic in a manner comparable to the way Portuguese folks can get by in Italian... but the new generation must speak "pure Turkmen of our ancestors" and that means no naughty loan words or derivatives that the ancestors have had for 1500 years. And so juice becomes "squeezed..." although when I saw it, they were drinking juice imported from Iran which was called "squeezed" on one side of the pack in Approved Turkmen and "juice" on the other side in latinized Persian.
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Date: 2013-01-29 09:58 am (UTC)