Slovakia to fine media for using foreign words / Slovak dilini korumayan medyaya ceza

Orava Castle.

Source: bbcturkish.com (Turkish)


IMO a better solution if they really want to do this would be to single out four languages instead of all: English, French, German and Spanish. And maybe Russian. That solves the problem with Hungary and at the same time removes pretty much all the foreign influences on the language.

Orta Avrupa ülkelerinden Slovakya’da ulusal dili korumayan medya kuruluşlarına para cezası geliyor.

In the Central European nation Slovakia media that fail to protect the national language will be fined.

Yasa öncelikle televizyon ve radyo gibi medya kurumlarını hedef alıyor. Eğer radyo ve televizyonlarda, gereksiz bir şekilde yabancı kökenli bir sözcük kullanılırsa o zaman medya kurumuna her ihlal için ayrı ayrı olmak üzere 500 Euro’dan 5000 Euro’ya kadar değişebilen para cezası kesilecek.

The law is first directed at media institutions such as television and radio. If on radio or television a needless foreign word is used, the media institution will be hit with a variable fine from 500 to 5000 euro for each infringement.

Cezaların saptanmasında, kullanılan yabancı sözcüğün Slovakçada uygun bir karşılığının bulunup bulunmadığına bakılacak. Eğer yabancı dilden alınıp kullanılan kelimeye uygun Slovakça bir kelime varsa, bu durumda kuruma ceza verilecek.

In determining the fine, they will take a look at whether there was a corresponding Slovak word where the foreign word was used. If a foreign word is used and there is a corresponding Slovak word, then the institution will be fined.

Slovakya’da daha önce çıkarılan, 'resmi dili koruma yasası' Slovakçanın korunması için birçok alanda düzenlemelere gitmişti.

The "national language protection law" established before in Slovakia to protect Slovak has gone through adjustments in a number of areas.

Okullardaki ve ders kitaplarındaki düzenlemelerin ardından şimdi bu yeni çıkan yasayla, resmi dilin korunması faaliyetlerinin kapsamı daha da genişletilmiş oluyor.

After adjustments in schools and textbooks, with this new law the protection of the official language has further widened its scope of activity.

Yasa öncelikle Slovakçaya İngilizceden giren kelimeleri süzmeyi amaçlasa da, gözlemciler Slovakya’da yaşayan Macar azınlığa karşı da kullanılabileceğini düşünüyorlar.

Though the law is meant to filter out words that have entered Slovak from English, observers believe that it could be used against the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.

Daha önce de, dili korumak amacıyla yapılan düzenlemeler, ders kitaplarından yerleşim birimlerinin Macarca adlarının çıkarılmasına yol açmıştı.

Previously, adjustments made to protect the language led to Hungarian names of settlements being removed from textbooks.

Bu da Slovakya ve Macaristan arasında tartışmalar başlatmıştı.

This also began disputes between Slovakia and Hungary.

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New place to learn Portuguese in Budapest, Hungary

O parlamento húngaro, em Budapeste

Short article on a new Brazilian cultural centre here:

Budapest's first Brazilian cultural center opened on November 9, writes kultura.hu, based on an MTI report. The aim of the Brazilian Dance Academy is to spread the culture, music and dance of Brazil and offer Portuguese language instruction.

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Now the group aims to expand their activities spread other parts of the culture by organizing film festivals, exhibitions and language courses.

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News from early September in Occidental: Comet Ory, Hungary and Slovakia, Hockey, shrinking Serbian demographics, Czech sugar cubes

Comet Hale-Bopp.

Every week or so a user of Occidental posts some news for the week in Occidental on their group here, and I like to translate it every once in a while to give the language some more exposure. Since the news is generally from Slavic languages (I think), quite a bit of it is unfamiliar to most that subsist on CNN and whatnot and so it's often completely new. I have no idea why so many articles claim that comet to be 20,000 km though. A comet bigger than Earth, I don't think so.

He's also been writing a ton of content on the Occidental Wikipedia, especially this page on the Czech Republic.

Any words I'm not sure about I've put a (?) next to.

LI 31IM DE AUGUST 2008, SOLEDÍ

The 31st of August 2008, Sunday

- Michel Ory, un francesi-sviss astronomo-amatoro, ha decovrit un nov comete. Li comete, quel have un diametre circum duant mill kilometres, va esser nominat Comete de Ory secun li decovritoro. Li Comete de Ory órbita circum li Sole unvez durant ducent annus e it va esser maxim bonmen visíbil in octobre e novembre.

- Michel Ory, a French-Swiss amateur astronomer, has descovered a new comet. The comet, which has a diameter around 2,000 km (note: there's no way this number is right. I checked some other articles and they were claiming 20,000 km which is even more ridiculous. It must be metres), will be named Ory's Comet for the discoverer. Comet Ory orbits around the Sun every two hundred years and it will be most visible in October and November.

LI 1IM DE SEPTEMBRE 2008, LUNEDÍ

The 1st of September 2008, Monday

- Li prim ministros slovak e hungarian, Robert Fico e Gyurcsány Ferenc, ha incontrat in Bruxelles. Gyurcsány ha críticat li assertiones anti-hungarian numerari del Partise National Slovak. "Si li hungarianes es videt quam ínamícos del slovakes, noi have un problema," il ha dit. Ma secun le it es clar, que li actual slovak política ne reflexe ti ci assertiones. Fico ha dit, que li slovak guvernament es anc affollat del alcunc activitás in Hungaria. Fico ha críticat "un organisation semi-fascistic marchant in Hungaria". "Ma it ne vell pleser me, si noi vell desmeliorar nor relationes solmen pro ti ci negativ assertiones o li activitás de alcunc homes íncapábil in Hungaria," Fico ha dit.

- The Slovak and Hungarian prime ministers, Robert Fico and Gyurcsány Ferenc, have met in Brussels. Gyurcsány has criticized the assertions of the anti-Hungarian numerary of the Slovak National Party. "If the Hungarians are seen as enemies of the Slovaks, we have a problem," he said. But according to him it is clear that current politics in Slovakia do not reflect these assertions. Fico has said that the Slovak government is also made mad (?) by some activities in Hungary. Fico has criticized "a semi-fascistic organization marching in Hungary." "But it wouldn't please me if we were to worsen our relations solely due to these negative assertions and the activities of some talentless(?) people in Hungaria," said Fico.

LI 2IM DE SEPTEMBRE 2008, MARDÍ

The 2nd of September 2008, Tuesday

- Russia unifica Europa ... per hockey sur glacie. Li Liga Continental de Hockey hodie commensant, quel ha remplazzat li ancian Championatu de Russia de Hockey sur Glacie, contene ne solmen 21 russ clubes, ma anc un bieloruss, un kazakh e un latvian. In li seson sequent, it vell posser expander su a Svedia, Ukraina, Finland, Tchechia e Germania.

- Russia unifies Europe ... through ice hockey. The Continental Hockey League began today, which has replaced the previous Russian Championship of Ice Hockey, and contains not just 21 Russian clubs, but also a Belorussian, a Kazakh and a Latvian. In the following season it could expand to Sweden, Ukraine, Finland, Czech Republic and Germany.

LI 4IM DE SEPTEMBER 2008, JOVEDÍ

The 4th of September 2008, Thursday

- Zeljko Vasiljević, un vice-secretario del ministerie de labor e social política de Serbia, ha proposit, que li land "importa" féminas asian e bulgaric por cessar li demographic ínstabilitá. Il

ha proposit importar féminas de Vietnam, Cambodgia, Laos, Birmania, Bulgaria, Rumania e Moldavia, por que ellas marita li mult mannes celibi, númere di quel es multmen plu grand quam li númere de féminas celibi. Si ti ci situation va maner ínchangeat durant li du annus sequent, 120 regiones pópulat in Serbia va cessar esser habitat, Vasiljević allega.

- Zeljko Vasiljević, a vice-secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Social Politics in Serbia, has proposed that the land "import" Asian and Bulgarian women to stop demographic instability. He has proposed importing women from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova, so that they will marry the many unmarried men, the number of which is much greater than the number of unmarried women. If the situation were to remain unchanged in the next two years, 120 populated regions in Serbia will cease to be inhabited, alleges Vasiljević.

LI 5IM DE SEPTEMBER 2008, VENERDÍ

The 5th of September, Wednesday

- Li tchech guvernament ha desvelat un nov campanie por far reclame por li futuri presidentie del land in li Union Europan. Li chef motto del campanie es un cub de sucre, quel ha esset inventet in Tchechia, e it include un slogan, quel es un lude ironic de paroles. Li slogan es traductet literralmen quam "noi va far afferes plu dulci por Europa", ma anc "noi va far problemas por Europa" secun un tchech idioma. Civic Democrates, un dextri partise del prim ministro, es un bastion de euroscepticisme. Li tchech presidento Václav Klaus ha dit ante li intrada de Tchechia al Union Europan, que li tchech soveranitá va esser dissoluet in li Union Europan quam un cub de sucre in un tasse de café.

- The Czech government has unveiled a new campaign to promote the future presidency of the country in the European Union. The main motto of the campaign is a sugar cube, which was invented in the Czech Republic, and it includes a slogan which is an ironic pun. The slogan is literally translated as "we will make things sweeter for Europe", but also "we will make problems for Europe" according to a Czech idiom. The Civic Democrats, a right-wing party of the prime minister, is a bastion of Euroskepticism. The Czech president Václav Klaus has said before the entry of the Czech Republic (note to John McCain if you're reading this: The Czech Republicwas one of the nations formed in 1993 after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.) to the European Union, that Czech sovereignty would be dissolved in the European Union like a sugar cube in a cup of coffee.

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