Oh, that language is daunting, I'll admit, but that's not an alphabet at all. Did consider hangul at one point, but it was the lack of world-class literature that swayed me away from it.
For some reason I'm really, really unenthusiastic about Korean. I'm sure it's an unreasonable prejudice, but we all have those, eh?
Odd. Doesn't appear in that order in my grammar.
Well, obviously I'm talking about Arabic alphabets here, the Persian one has some letters added in, in this case the gaf introducing itself between K and L... otherwise it should fit.
Regarding the order of the Arabic alphabet, it should be noted that there are in fact two orders; the modern one doesn't really seem familiar in any way other than the KLMN sequence, but the old one is remarkably similar to the orders of Hebrew and Greek (alif ba jim da / aleph bet gimel dalet / alpha beta gamma delta). Shame that they switched... presumably your Persian dictionary follows the new alif ba ta tha jim etc. sequence?
In the Thackston grammar, the alphabet starts alef, be, pe te, se, jim, che, he-jimi, khe, dâl...
Yeah. That's the modern Arabic order, only with more letters (the P doesn't exist in Arabic) and some different pronunciations (se instead of tha - does that mean Persian has no less than three different letters S?). Still, I'll stop confusing you.
Indeed, but it's a bit odd at the moment. Maybe in a week or so, when I have the time to study in earnest.
Yes. We should probably stop before getting another horizontal scrollbar, anyway.
Well, at least I'm not hurrying up to wait
Heh. Is that a common expression where you're from?
This message last edited by Legolas on 29/12/2011 at 10:03:23 PM
نسسپ:/ کئتٱاب
- 29/12/2011 02:53:56 AM
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FYI I'm pretty sure you have an extra alif in there... *NM*
- 29/12/2011 02:22:20 PM
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Re: FYI I'm pretty sure you have an extra alif in there...
- 29/12/2011 03:09:02 PM
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Was that supposed to be kitab? You wrote n, not i, for the second consonant. *NM*
- 29/12/2011 04:32:39 PM
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Strange...
- 29/12/2011 04:37:13 PM
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کتاب
- 29/12/2011 04:41:26 PM
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Re: کتاب
- 29/12/2011 04:42:51 PM
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"I" doesn't look like that in a medial position, Larry.
- 29/12/2011 04:47:04 PM
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I meant the typewriter "i"
- 29/12/2011 04:53:46 PM
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As a side note, I'm greatly amused with myself for typing "typewriter" in late 2011.
- 29/12/2011 05:01:39 PM
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Yeah, you're not supposed to type the i, hence that hamza that you get.
- 29/12/2011 07:07:14 PM
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Might be for the best at this time
- 29/12/2011 07:24:31 PM
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- 29/12/2011 07:24:31 PM
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I don't think it'll be that bad.
- 29/12/2011 07:38:41 PM
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Oh, nasta'liq is in my near future
- 29/12/2011 07:50:56 PM
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Ewww.
- 29/12/2011 08:48:21 PM
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- 29/12/2011 08:48:21 PM
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Yes, I have to do it at some point
- 29/12/2011 08:57:18 PM
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Let me put it this way...
- 29/12/2011 09:27:36 PM
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I don't think "put off" is the word for it
- 29/12/2011 09:40:37 PM
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Okay.
- 29/12/2011 10:03:11 PM
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Persian doesn't have as many sounds as Arabic.
- 30/12/2011 12:27:01 AM
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Wouldn't that just make it harder to spell right?
- 30/12/2011 07:51:06 PM
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Re: نسسپ:/ کئتٱاب
- 30/12/2011 06:38:03 PM
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I have a talent with languages and it challenges my mind, which I need. Simple as that. *NM*
- 31/12/2011 12:32:32 AM
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