Correctioning SANA's English
November 16, 2006
Stamp commemorating the 17th anniversary of Hafez Assad’s Baathist “corrective movement.”
According to SANA, Syria today "celebrated" the 36th anniversary of the "Correctionist Movement." Hurray.
As my fellow Syrians blew out their virtual candles with sheer delight, I couldn't help thinking that what we really need is a "correctionist movement" within SANA itself, at least within its English section. Somebody simply must take some corrective (sorry, correctionist) measures to reach, at the very least, basic language correctness (sorry, correctionism). Clearly, as things stand, I'll never be able to get a job there, and if I did, I'd get fired immediately for writing things like "corrective movement." Sigh.
