On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > Nice examples of abbreviations/shorthands/whatever: > > * The first page of Mosahab Persian Encyclopedia (first published in > 1345/1966), about the abbreviations used in the encyclopedia, showing > different methods of Persian abbreviation (127 KiB): > > http://www.farsiweb.info/misc/mosahab-abbr.png
Nice construction, but none of them are actually used these days, except for: ALEF LAM KHEH: widely used. BEH MEEM: For AD, is not used, but a single MEEM is used instead. It's context sensitive so, the same thing means "translator" in other contexts. SAD: widely used as "(SAD)". SAD ZWJ: For Page, is widely used, but as an isolated SAD. EIN: widely used as "(EIN)". EIN JIM: used for a different meaning. HEH SHEEN, HEH GHAF: used widely. So, the others are usual dictionary constructions. The same thing happens in English too. But it's unfortunate that we still don't have any abbreviations in use for units in Physics :(. BTW, the construction techniques are intelligent in their own limited way. --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
