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Le 03/10/2010 13:34, Vafa Khalighi a écrit :
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Arthur
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<div class="im">On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 10:15:34PM +1100,
Vafa Khalighi wrote:<br>
> Its Persian not Farsi. Farsi is the fake name that
arabs give to our<br>
> language as they have no "p".<br>
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Vafa, what did we say about making such statements on a
public<br>
mailing-list?<br>
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As an Iranian Zoroastrian, I could not ignore my feelings.
Sorry. but I did not say anything offensive, I just said
that Farsi is fake. You should read some history.<br>
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"Persian" is an English pronunciation, "Farsi" an Arabic one. Both
derive from the same word. I can't see why one is fake and not the
other. Like saying the real name of French is Französich, for some
reason having to do with German phonetics...<br>
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Plus in good phonology, if there's no "p" then you can't consider
that "f" represents the sound /f/; it represents an archiphonem of
both /p/ and /f/. So it's "parsi" after all.<br>
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Paul<br>
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