From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 08:27:50 EDT
On Wed, 21 May 2003, Rick Cameron wrote:
> The people who write content for the website of the President of Iran -
> http://www.president.ir/ - apparently prefer to use the word Farsi.
Doesn't mean anything. Those guys are not linguistically competetive
enough. You should try the Academy instead:
> Give it up, Michael! Clearly 'Farsi' has become an acceptable alternative to
> 'Persian'.
Anyway, it is politically-incorrect to call it 'Farsi'.
roozbeh
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