The closest you may come to general rules, is what Ordak came up with. Although I'd rather put kasra after first name ending with yeh and hamza after other vowels. I would not write kasra but I would write hamza. I'd always pronounce it unless it clearly sounds awkward or I'm talking slang. (I do pronounce Omer-e-Khayyam) but I don't write kasra unless I want to emphasize it.
You see, even for the rules that I recommend, I am the first one to break!
You must understand that first name and last name as we know it, is a fairly new concept in Iranian history and it evolved rapidly with the creation of institutionalized piece of identification. When census and registry people (roughly translated) knocked the door of my great grand parents to issue piece of identification, each of the four brothers picked a different family name! Not because they didn't know how to name each other, but because it didn't relate to this new concept of first name and last name. So when it comes to rules of pronunciation, it shouldn't be surprising that in each corner of the country, people improvised based on their traditional heritage.
But I still think that Ordak made the best effort to come with some rules.
Behnam
On 13-Jun-04, at 5:11 PM, C Bobroff wrote:
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Elnaz Sarbar wrote:
They are hard because they have really "never" seen anyone puts Kasre in
personal names. Neither do I. It "is" sometimes pronounced but almost
never written.
OK, a sane person enters.
Since you have at least *heard* it, please see if you can find a pattern
as to WHEN it is said. Really, the speech-to-text people may thank you.
For example, how is it that the same person, in the same speech will say,
"Ahmad Shamlu mord." Then a few seconds later say, "Ahmad-e Shamlu,
nevisandeh-ye borzorg..."
What are the conditions involved? I suspect it follows strict natural laws
of linguistics, and of course influenced by mood and style.
I just want to know what they are!
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