Re: Persian or Farsi? (was RE: Decimal separator with more than one character?)

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 10:18:29 EDT

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "Re: Persian or Farsi? (was RE: Decimal separator with more than one c haracter?)"

    On Wed, 21 May 2003, Philippe Verdy wrote:

    > Only Iran is banned of imports from US, but there's a large community of
    > Persian/Farsi people abroad that live legally in countries where these
    > products can be imported, bought and used.

    And there are rumors that they outnumber the Persian speakers living in
    Iran. At least economically.

    > So the real question is what is the prefered way to designate this
    > language for those people, that legitimately cannot be forbidden to use
    > their language as a natural way to preserve their culture.

    Have my word, many of them even prefer to call the country "Persia"!



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