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Prejudices are fine...when they lead me to poets I like Larry Send a noteboard - 29/12/2011 10:23:28 PM
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? :P


Indeed, which is why I didn't study French in college :P

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. ;)


And then there are the extra t's as well, most of them for the Arabic loanwords.

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. :P


Oh, I still have another post or two to go before that at this resolution ;)

Well, at least I'm not hurrying up to wait ;)

Heh. Is that a common expression where you're from? :P


I thought it was a universal expression. Similar to festina lente, except for English speakers.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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نسسپ:/ کئتٱاب Larry - 29/12/2011 02:53:56 AM 789 Views
FYI I'm pretty sure you have an extra alif in there... *NM* Tim - 29/12/2011 02:22:20 PM 293 Views
Re: FYI I'm pretty sure you have an extra alif in there... Larry - 29/12/2011 03:09:02 PM 634 Views
Was that supposed to be kitab? You wrote n, not i, for the second consonant. *NM* Tom - 29/12/2011 04:32:39 PM 248 Views
Strange... Larry - 29/12/2011 04:37:13 PM 724 Views
کتاب Tom - 29/12/2011 04:41:26 PM 581 Views
Re: کتاب Larry - 29/12/2011 04:42:51 PM 702 Views
"I" doesn't look like that in a medial position, Larry. Tom - 29/12/2011 04:47:04 PM 649 Views
I meant the typewriter "i" Larry - 29/12/2011 04:53:46 PM 621 Views
As a side note, I'm greatly amused with myself for typing "typewriter" in late 2011. Larry - 29/12/2011 05:01:39 PM 636 Views
Frankly, the rest of it looks garbled, too *NM* Tom - 29/12/2011 04:44:16 PM 256 Views
Yeah, you're not supposed to type the i, hence that hamza that you get. Legolas - 29/12/2011 07:07:14 PM 723 Views
Might be for the best at this time Larry - 29/12/2011 07:24:31 PM 604 Views
I don't think it'll be that bad. Legolas - 29/12/2011 07:38:41 PM 614 Views
Oh, nasta'liq is in my near future Larry - 29/12/2011 07:50:56 PM 566 Views
Ewww. Legolas - 29/12/2011 08:48:21 PM 774 Views
Yes, I have to do it at some point Larry - 29/12/2011 08:57:18 PM 625 Views
Let me put it this way... Legolas - 29/12/2011 09:27:36 PM 569 Views
I don't think "put off" is the word for it Larry - 29/12/2011 09:40:37 PM 880 Views
Okay. Legolas - 29/12/2011 10:03:11 PM 692 Views
Prejudices are fine...when they lead me to poets I like Larry - 29/12/2011 10:23:28 PM 821 Views
Persian doesn't have as many sounds as Arabic. Tom - 30/12/2011 12:27:01 AM 604 Views
A small mercy so far Larry - 30/12/2011 12:59:18 AM 742 Views
Wouldn't that just make it harder to spell right? Legolas - 30/12/2011 07:51:06 PM 659 Views
Yes. Tom - 30/12/2011 11:34:34 PM 613 Views
It's like é è à á î ï í ì ö ô ó ò ø, etc. to me Larry - 31/12/2011 12:31:21 AM 712 Views
Re: نسسپ:/ کئتٱاب dacole - 30/12/2011 06:38:03 PM 645 Views
I have a talent with languages and it challenges my mind, which I need. Simple as that. *NM* Larry - 31/12/2011 12:32:32 AM 362 Views
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