Many politicians of the opposition criticized his proposal, and some called for his resignation.

The forest authorities also criticized the proposal for a tram line because it would have made an additional transhipment of wood necessary.

However, other linguistics have criticized the proposal as cherry-picking among a large number of non-matching pronominal forms.

For instance, it was postulated that neutrinos might be some sort of superluminal particles called tachyons, even though others criticized this proposal.