On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Nigel Greenwood wrote: > 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!
There are reasons for this. Read the archives please. > Only as a personal name. The Prophet's name is pronounced Muhammed. Where? In Turkey? If that is the case, it's different from the way it's pronounced in Iran and Saudi Arabia. At least the way it is pronounced in Iran and Saudi Arabia is very different. In Iran it is pronounced "mohammad". In Saudi Arabic it is "muHammad". > > 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. That's it. The orthography reflects a (semi-)standard pronounciation. There is no such thing for Persian (for example, Kabul's Persian is a lot different from Tehran's Persian, in terms of pronounciation). The point is: you need to choose a standard pronounciation if you want to use the Latin script for the Persian language. And that's very hard. "The Devil is in the details." roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
