I already warned you that my blogging inspiration is back, so I have one more thing to tell to you. Actually more to Estonians and Latvians, but others may read it anyway :)), and there is smth for other in the end of post. So, besides my blogging inspiration I have got also linguistic inspiration, which, I have to admit, is influenced by my recent 7-day-stay-at-home and more frequent news watching. What they are talking about most of all nowadays? Terrorists, of course.
I decided, that words terorist in Est and terorists in Lat are totally stupid because it’s actually possible and very easy to give some meaning to them. I remember my confusion in early politinformation lessons (yes, I had them!) in first school years.
It’s clear that it actually comes from English, and there it comes from a word terror which means hirm in Est and šausmas in Lat. And terrorist is somebody who makes others to feel terror. So I propose that in Est it should be hirmuja and in Lat šausmotājs. Isn’t it clear right a way, what sort of person is that?!
So, dear Latvian linguists, please, leave eiro in piece and work with this :))
And here is smth for non-Latvians and non-Estonians: you have opportunity to offer version in your language :))