Johnson, the language blog of The Economist, talks about English and Arabic wordplay inspired by the Egyptian protests.
I’M LOOKING forward to the piece Ben Zimmer says he’ll be writing for this weekend’s New York Times on the creative uses of language in the anti-Mubarak protests. … But one thing that Mr Zimmer notes—a contest to make Mr Mubarak’s name a verb—is going to be hard in Arabic, and this game may have to be played in English.
Read the rest here. (Related Word Routes column, Week in Review piece)