Following is a huge list of quotes with a pattern of "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z":
http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html A few of them with references to Persian and Persians, which I find very funny: Hindi is essentially a combination of bad Persian and worse Sanskrit. --Amber Adams Pashto is as essentially Persian as Icelandic is essentially English. --John Cowan Kurdish is essentially Persian as spoken by Klingons. --Robin Turner Imperial Aramaic is essentially "business Aramaic" as spoken by Persian clerks and middle management. --Charles Häberl Turkish is essentially Arabic, Persian and French words stuck together with Mongolian grammar. --Thomas Leigh Urdu writing is essentially Arabo-Persian writing, done in a hurry. --Danny Wier roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
