Apparently there's growing resentment in Malaysia over language policy in the country's schools. For the past six years, science and math courses have been taught in English instead of Malay, even in districts where neither the students nor instructors are fluent.
I've been looking for a good Esperanto equivalent for "foot–in–mouth disease" — the verb "fuŝparoli" is the closest I've gotten — ever since I read this item on Libera Folio quoting Czech Republic President Václav Klaus on the European Union's doomed Lisbon Treaty…