Un-American Weatherman Uses Arab Word: It's The End of Civilization!

[evildevil]

Haboobs to Be Renamed "Freedom Desert Dust".

‘Haboobs’ Stir Critics in Arizona

The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them.

The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on Monday, are caused by thunderstorms that emit

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[krazykat88]

"David Wilson of Goodyear, Ariz., said those who wanted to avoid Arabic terms should steer clear of algebra, zero, pajamas and khaki, as well."

IRL LOL. waiting for someone to demand we invent new words or something because "those words came from terrorist language!!!" *facepalm* (sadly, I know at least one person who would say something like that)

[quizzicalsphinx]

THEY'RE NOT PAJAMAS, THEY'RE FREEDOM FLANNELS

[nykeyoung]

And that's not a zero. That's a FREEDOM NOTHING!

The creation of the FREEDOM NOTHING will be the greatest thing in the year 2AMERICAFUCKYEAH11.

[thedorkygirl]

+1

[biting_moopie]

Can't stop laughing. Nicely done.

[squeeful]

You can add in sorbet and candy too.

Also, the very introduction of sugar.

NO MORE CAKE FOR ARIZONA.

[chaeri]

Oh I do too.

Personally, I think the soldiers returning have more worries than whether or not a word or a hundred words in English are derived from Arabic.

[fenris_lorsrai]

Like Académie française trying to get people to use things that don't sound like English words... even though the english words were just latinate constructs, so sound french anyway.

[lizzy_someone]

lol ikr, they've got some nerve complaining about English loan words into French, considering the vast number of words French loaned English first!