Re: Abbreviations et al.

2004-05-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 06:07, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> SAD ZWJ: For Page, is widely used, but as an isolated SAD.

A doubled Sad for "pages" also happens commonly. But as an initial Sad
followed by a final one.

> EIN JIM: used for a different meaning.

Yep. They add it after the name of Mahdi.

> BTW, the construction techniques are intelligent in their own
> limited way.

That was the whole point for me sending a scan.

roozbeh


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Re: Abbreviations et al.

2004-05-02 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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
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Abbreviations et al.

2004-04-29 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
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

* A month table from a "sar-resid-naame" (I don't know the English term)
published in Iran in 1383/2004, showing the one-letter day headings (37
KiB):

http://www.farsiweb.info/misc/calendar-abbr.png

roozbeh


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