Hi, I'm going to reply to this but in about a 1 week time, due to the fact that I've got some cramming to do,
The topics that I will be responding to are: - Sarcasm - The Persian language - Why P is better than F - Eminent Failure Paradox (Time Travel) Regards Arash __________________________________________________ Be one who knows what they don't know, Instead of being one who knows not what they don't know, Thinking they know everything about all things. http://www.partow.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arash Zeini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FarsiKDE ML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:47 PM Subject: [Kde-i18n-fa] Resources and another little tale > Dear Friends, > > Even though I had sent the list of our dictionaries and references to the > list before, I see a need to set up a page at www.farsikde.org so that > people see and use it. I will do so soon. > > A person, who apparently knew me from my work on the middle persian online > dictionary, complained recently that we use Arabic words on our web page > for www.farsikde.org and was very disappointed and urged me to change it > so to use pure Farsi. I offered him to do it himself because time does not > permit to do so, but I am happy to accept any ones work on this. He > refused and said it was my job. > > We can continue to complain about the change of "P" to "F" and so on. But > let me ask you few questions: Why stop in the Middlepersian time, let us > go back to the changes that occurred from Oldpersian of the inscriptions > to any newer occurrence or let us go to the differences between Avesta and > Oldpersian and let us include the differences between Vedic and Avesta as > well and if we can we should also consider the Proto-Indo-European too and > its changes to the Latin language and... > or let us just work. > > BTW: If anyone sells us a cheap time machine, we are happy to revise > everything back to the Middlepersian times, oh sorry I meant Oldpersian, > oh no sorry I meant the Northeastern family of Iranian languages, oh no no > no, I meant the Southwestern family that was... > Oh... let us just decide when we have the time machine. > > Greetings, > Arash > > -- > The FarsiKDE Project > www.farsikde.org > _______________________________________________ > Kde-i18n-fa mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-i18n-fa > > _______________________________________________ Kde-i18n-fa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-i18n-fa
