As a new member of this List, I find all the x-posting & cc'ing a bit confusing. Isn't it simpler if all postings go to PersianComputing? Makes replying a lot easier too!
____________________________________ Re Roozbeh Pournader's message of 12 Jun 2003: <...> > We tried to look at the Turkish language reform independent of its > cultural and political aspects, but only linguistically. He had a > notion that the word "Meem-Heh-Meem-Dal" had somehow become an > ideograph in the Muslim countries, written the same way from Turkey to > Indonesia, but pronounced in at least five or six completely different > ways (Turks pronounce it as "Mehmet" for example). Only as a personal name. The Prophet's name is pronounced Muhammed. > He was mentioning that the Turks did the script switch and the > standardization of the pronunciation of the language at the same time. I don't think the pron. of Turkish has been standardized, exactly. It's just that the orthography reflects educated Istanbul/Ankara speech. Nigel _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
