Have you heard about patriotic decibels? One of our politicians' favorite occupation, who have an acute sense of the nation in their blood, is the care with which they watch the correct use of Romanian by the minorities. For some time, the general secretary of PRM, Gheorghe Funar, has organized in Cluj, obviously for the Hungarian minorities, courses for the correct use of Romanian. As far as we know, the offer of the Mayor of Cluj has not provoked jumbling on the stairs of the City Hall, and the diploma under the "Funar" aegis doesn't enjoy acknowledgment not even from the guys in the city. One could say that according to the frequency of this occupation, it is an honorable mission to manifest interest for the enriching of the language. In fact, Funar "the linguist" is the same with Funar "the painter", after he painted the benches in three colors. From a scientific point of view, we imagine that we should appeal with trust to the well-known Senator George Pruteanu. He is just trying hard to pass through the Parliament a law of "protection of the Romanian language", a draft establishing that on the Romanian territory any text in a foreign language with character of public interest should be accompanied by its translation into Romanian, otherwise severe fines will be applied, much bigger than the ones applied to the companies charges with tax evasion or other economic tricks. What places the law at the level of derision is the fact that in the case of the "spoken texts of public interest, rhythm, volume and intonation of utterance in the foreign language should be identical to the rhythm, volume and intonation in Romanian". It is pretty obvious for everybody that this law remains a fiction. Who stays to evaluate intonation, measure decibels and number the syllables uttered in one second, so that the law of Mr. Pruteanu be not violated? Which would be the utility of t