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What is Your FuQQing Problem?

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This sounds like either something French-Canadians would do or a Monty Python skit:

A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.

The court in the southeastern city of Siirt fined each of the 20 people 100 new lira ($75.53) for holding up the placards, written in Kurdish, at the event last year. The letters Q and W do not exist in the Turkish alphabet.

Under pressure from the European Union, Turkey has improved language and human rights for its Kurdish minority, but the EU says implementation has been patchy and loopholes remain.

I guess they won’t be holding the World Scrabble Championship in Ankara.

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  1. 1.

    Krista

    Not necessarily French-Canadian…but some factions of the Quebec government? Yeah…I’d buy that.

  2. 2.

    DecidedFenceSitter

    As someone else pointed out, the French do it as well. Let’s say your company name that provides a product for an activity becomes synonymous with the activity itself. Such as Xerox. The French have a board which needs to approve the non-French word before it can be taught/inserted into a dictionary in France.

  3. 3.

    Jack Roy

    Sounds to me more like a New York City subway reg. Not so much intended to discourage behavior so much as a small revenue measure. Who knows, maybe all those 100-liras add up?

  4. 4.

    Vladi G

    As someone else pointed out, the French do it as well.

    I’m sorry, I missed the part about the French fining people for using the wrong word.

    There’s nothing wrong with having a committee decide on what new words will be used in language. It’s one of the reasons that Icelandic texts that are hundreds of years old read as if they were written last week (can’t say the same for English). But that doesn’t mean they’ve criminalized the use of unapproved words.

  5. 5.

    Steve

    Tyler prepared to challenge Internet language law

    Lawyer Brent Tyler is ready to challenge the tongue troopers’ crackdown on Quebec-based internet users who don’t include French on their websites.

    Tyler was reacting to a Commission de Protection de la Langue Française warning to N.D.G. resident Michel Soucy, whose computer-tutoring web-site is posted in English only.

    “My client maintains that his website is lawful,” Tyler responded to the commission last Thursday. “Any prosecution will be vigorously defended, including a challenge to the constitutionality of Sections 52 and 57 of the Charter of the French Language.”

    The French language protection commission claims it was responding to a complaint when it sent a letter to Soucy Jan. 27. They maintain that Section 52 of Bill 101 says printed commercial matter on the Internet must be in French, although other languages are allowed. Section 57 says all order forms must be translated into French.

    “Since you offer products and services in Quebec, you are obliged to do so in French,” the commission’s letter says.

    As for Turkey, we should probably just be grateful that no one is getting their tongue cut out.

  6. 6.

    Jim Allen

    Those people are wacqued. And qwazy.

    Do they just leave the two keys in the upper left blank, or do they remove them entirely?

  8. 8.

    Shygetz

    Silly Turks, why don’t they just torture the Kurds until they stop their anti-Turkey behavior?

    Sorry, wrong thread.

  9. 9.

    Ross

    Silly Turks, why don’t they just torture the Kurds until they stop their anti-Turkey behavior?.

    They tried that with an ethnic minority before, then they tried marching them wholesale in the desert until they died, and then they tried spending the next 90 years denying it.

    look

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