Friday 25 April 2014

Macedonical

Macedonical: adjective. The potential word was subject to several discussions before the final ruling of the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language decided that Macedonical would indeed be a word and should be used in whichever documents relevant to it. To be quite clear, Macedonical and the name derived from it denoting a Macedonical person, Macedont (not to be confused with mastodont), refers to the country of Macedonia, also called FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia). It was created in an attempt to mediate the dispute between Greece and Macedonia over the name Macedonia as both the country and a region in Northern Greece are called Macedonia. To the dismay of the Macedonians, the Macedonts have, according to the claims of the former, quite callously stolen the name and historical figures associated with it, like Alexander the Great, and used it for their own evil schemes. The MREL decided that to satisfy both Greece and Macedonia, the latter could retain the name Macedonia, but its people would have to be renamed to Macedonts and any adjectival usage would have to be changed to Macedonical which is why the decision was boycotted by the FYROM government, which said that the costs of changing road signs would be far too high for the Macedonical economy to cope with. Good ideas are simply not welcome in this world.

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