English Language Remembrance Day

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English Language Remembrance Day is an unofficial[1] Ashtalaian holday observed on December 3rd since 2013. It started as a small social media reaction to the shutdown of legal carriage of Flarlandian television channels in Ashtalaia and in the Fire of Freedom days was representative of the oppression of the usage of the English language from media outlets and in public, due to government policies between 2016 and 2017 saying that "English corrupts the minds of Ashtalaians".

The day is marked with a ten-minute period of silence from 08:50 to 09:00 by independent English-langauge media outlets, and will be revoked until action is taken to revert some decisions made at the time. Users who are mostly Ashtalaian nationals will boycott the use of Ashtalaian or Hayastelari in favor of English.

  1. The holiday isn't observed by the government and is an informal, sometimes tongue-in-cheek holiday. It was created on social media and all acts are held on platforms, rarely in-person.