Re: [linuxiran] farsi linux site

[Anonynamous Troublemaker]

May I briefly intervene,

If Behdad had said this 25 years ago, I would have agreed with him; but not 
any more. Today the word "Farsi" is a part of the English vocabulary, 
referring to, well, "Farsi". It is in the latest Oxford Engilish 
Dictionaries, which is the defacto standard for English usage. That makes it 
official. It is used as such by VOA, the US State Department, and and a 
whole raft of other serious institutions. If you don't believe it, do a 
search for "Farsi" in Google, and see what you come up with.

Best regards to all

=============

> From: Arash Zeini <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: GNU/Linux in Iran <address@hidden>
> To: GNU/Linux in Iran <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [linuxiran] farsi linux site
> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:57:32 +0430
>
> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 18:28, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Abbas Izad wrote:
> > > It does not really matter now when on our litterature books FARSI 
> stands
> > > instead of PARSI (or Persian which is the correct word). Shahnameh
> > > Ferdosi is always a good referens. Arabs have no Peh in their 
> alphabets,
> > > so they use Feh instead of Peh and as we all know they conquerred
> > > Persians once and we still suffering of consequences like this. Past 
> is
> > > past! what can we do now? blaming arabs? fight each other? begging 
> others
> > > for help? Let's have some perspective to our history! We have THE 
> golden
> > > opportunity to use pure persian within translation of KDE or any other
> > > parts of linux But this require that we (all other similar projects) 
> can
> > > cooperate and stand united. Using the same Persian term every where 
> they
> > > appear in all application, using synonyms with Peh, Geh, Zheh, Cheh as
> > > much as possible!
> >
> > I can't get you here.  What are you trying to tell me?  I'm
> > talking about standards and dictionaries, not more.
> >
> > > Regards
> > > Abbas
>
> Wit regard to standards Behdad is right. But there are some other views 
> that
> can apply as well. But to be honest it has been a long day, fighting a lot
> with M$ Office, because I had to, and I am too lazy to go into this now :)
> Can I postpone my notworthy comments on this :) Thanks.
>
> Greetings,
> Arash
> --
> The FarsiKDE Project
> www.farsikde.org
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> bna-linuxiran mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran

_________________________________________________________________
Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! 
http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband