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Putin demanded less use of the Latin alphabet
Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded to avoid "excessive romanization" of the Russian language. Speaking at a joint meeting of the State Council and the Council for Culture and Art, he said that in Russian cities there are too many signs in Latin.
At the meeting, Putin also commented on the proposals of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who has repeatedly advocated a ban on foreign borrowings in Russian. In particular, Putin did not approve of the proposal to replace the word "genius" with "talent". The President noted the difference in the meaning of these words and explained that the word "talent", judging by its mention in the New Testament, comes from the language of one of the Semitic tribes. “It’s also not quite like our word,” noted . Putin
dictionaries Etymological . indicate that the word "talent" comes from the Greek talanton, denoting a monetary unit and a measure of weight
“The metro can be changed, of course, to the “subway”, but the French do not simply change the “bistro” to the “cafe”. There are some fixed things. Although, in general, I believe that Vladimir Volfovich is right, and we need to take this more seriously and more carefully, ”the president said.
“I draw the attention of the leaders of the regions - when you come to a city, you can immediately see the level of culture of local officials, if on every corner we have all the names of various institutions, advertisements, exclusively in Latin letters. What country do we live in? Putin said.
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky repeatedly complained about the excessive, in his opinion, use of borrowed words and proposed to legally limit their use. In particular, the LDPR leader does not like the words "dealer", "boutique", "mouton", "trader", "manager", "distributor", "condom" and "performance".
- “I would replace the hairdresser. After all, children distort the language: “maher” - doing, “wig” - hairstyle. In Russian, "have a haircut." "Strizhach" - haircut, men's haircut, women's haircut. But who does - "hairdresser". What it is? The Germans will say that Russians do not have their own words,” Zhirinovsky said in an interview with Kommersant.FM radio.
- In July 2014, the State Duma, at the initiative of the Liberal Democratic Party, considered a bill banning the use of foreign words in public speeches. Most of the deputies refused to support him.