User talk:Mani1/archive1

SAFAVIDS

 * Mani, please think twice, before you amend carefully phrased and historically founded editorials. I noticed some of your latest amendments of the SAFAVIDS article, which were simply in contradiction to established historical facts. "TURCIC-speaking soldiers" does not necessarily imply TURCIC soldiers, which they actually were. QIZILBASH is not merely TURCIC (an idiom of "Istanbuli" Turkish) but actual Turkish for "Red-Heads". Azeri WAS actually the official court language of the early Safavids, a well established fact. The respective references to Azerbaijan (Turkey held part/Persian held part) are historically significant and should therefor not be deleted! I believe the Safavids have been quite clearly portrayed as ethnically PERSIAN/IRANIAN, therefor the geographical basis (Azerbaijan) of their early development bears historical significance. --Pantherarosa 23:48, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Pantherarosa,

What you mentioned is in my opinion contradictory to the historical facts. The word Turkic when applied to a people means they are of Turkic (=Mongoloid) stock, while the Safavid soldiers where people of mosly Iranian stock who were linguistically Turkified. That's why the designation Turkic-speaking is more correct for them. Qizilbash is a Turkic word used in Azerbaijani and Uzbek etc. and not in (Istanbuli)Turkish. The (Istanbuli)Turkish for that word is Kizil-bas. Turkic means "related to the family of language spoken by the Turks" and does not mean (Istanbuli) Turkish at all.

It is a well-established fact that the standard and official language of the Safavid government was Persian. There is not even one single official document of the Safavid times found to be written in any other language than Persian. I have been studying the documents of that period and I know what I am talking about. Azerbaijani was not official at all. It was only used by the Safavid kings to talk to some of the military officiers who might have not learned Persian yet. But all the official correspondences were done merely in Persian.

Azarbaijan is the area to the south of the Aras River and is not divided by Turkey and Iran or others. It is in its entirety a part of Iran as always. If you want to refer to Aran, the newly forme republic to the north of Aras, it is a new forgery to call that area "Azerbaijan" too. The historical reference here is about the real Azarbaijan not the new fake one. --Mani1 11:09, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Unicode and Farsi
While changing evrey refernce to Farsi on wikipedia to Persian, please be careful about cases officially established and internationally approved. In unicode there is a code known as "Farsi Symbol". This symbol is known with this term in all documents (including unicode's standard ) and we are not in a position to change it to some other word because we don't like it. If you want it to be changed in later revisions of the standard contact unicode. --Pouya 15:11, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree with you.

--Mani1 16:32, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Tajik (Persian)
While I agree that Tajik is really a dialect of Persian, that is a matter of POV; some people, if only for political reasons, insist that it's a separate language. The term "Tajiki" is neutral, not indicating whether it's a language or a dialect; the term "Tajiki Persian" is POV, enforcing the view that you and I believe to be correct, and should therefore usually be avoided. - Mustafaa 16:01, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hi. What is the official name of the Tajiki-Persian in Tajikistan? I heard that they use the name Tajiki-Persian too. I think Tajiki-Persian is an official and accepted name and not a POV. I might be wrong on that. Wheter considered a dialect of persian or a "seperate language" (by some), its name can still be Tajiki-Persian. --Mani1 16:38, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Hmm. Good question; apparently, Roozbeh says Tajiks call it Tajiki, as does Ayatollah Lankarani, but I can't seem to find any helpful Tajik government sites that aren't in Russian. Let's look into this further. - Mustafaa 16:54, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Ah. It's simply "Tojiki" on the Internet Access and Training Program site (http://www.iatp.tj/RU/index.php). - Mustafaa 17:02, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

In many sources, the name Tajiki-persian is given as a legitimate alternative (Example Here). I am still not sure whether the Tajikistani government and official cultural organisations consider the name Tajiki-Persian to be controversial or not. Do those sites you mentioned, mention that Tajik(i) is the only politicaly correct and official name? --Mani1 17:26, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Certainly it's an alternative name used by some, but it doesn't seem to be the primary name; and the Ethnologue (the ultimate source of the alternate names listed there) gives many politically controversial names, like "Lapp". Encyclopedia Britannica calls it Tajiki, and it does seem that, in all the Tajik sites I've found, they simply call their language "Tojiki" or "zaboni Tojiki". UCLA also calls it Tajik. The main exception I've found is IranianLanguages.com, which calls it Tajiki Persian. - Mustafaa 17:35, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Is the name Tajiki, which ignores its Persian connection not a POV?

In my opinion the name Tajiki alone does not cover all the point of views, or does not provide a neutral view. It is a bised name motivitated by politics. --Mani1 17:48, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The name Tajik no more implies a lack of connection with Persian than the name Cockney implies a lack of connection to English. Similarly, if someone mentions "Darja" (or Maltese!), that could be taken by some to refer to a separate language, and others to refer to a dialect of Arabic. - Mustafaa 17:52, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The language spoken and written by the Tajiks of Central Asia was universally known as Persian and only Persian by the locals and foreigners. Russian invaders have tried to give the Persian language another name in the regions they occupied. It is like trying to call Australian a seperate language and refuse to accept term like English or Australian-English! In my opinion the term "Tajiki language" ignores its Persian connection as much as the term "Australian language" ignores its English connection. --Mani1 18:03, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It was universally known as Persian, but modern Tajik sites seem to all call it Tojiki. - Mustafaa 18:11, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

And other modern sites call it Tajiki-Persian. Why is Tajiki less POV than Tajiki-Persian? --Mani1 19:38, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I seriously disagree that "all other modern sites" call the language "Tajiki-Persian". Actually, a Google search shows that only Wikipedia mirrors use a dash, while other search results give one without a space. roozbeh 19:05, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)


 * He said "and other modern sites" not "all other". Anyway, the fact is that in both Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the language used to be officially called "Persian" and in both countries, the official name of the language was chagned by introducing a bill in their parliament, and taking votes.  In case of Afghanistan it became "Dari" and in case of Tajikistan it became "Tojiki".  But this is fairly recent history, and it was artificially changed for political reasons.  When I listen to Afghan and Tajik officials speak on TV (news conferences, interviews, etc), whatever that langugage is that they speak, call it "Dari" or "Tojiki" if you like, I understand it 100%, not 99%.  When Iranian officials visit Afghanistan or Tajikistan, they speak the same Persian language that they speak at home, not a "limited version" of the language for special audience! The language is "Persian", but it is also called "Dari" and "Tojiki" by parliamentary vote due to political reasons in those two countries.

Categories

 * 1) I found that you added Kilan in the source of Category:Cities in Iran. Please note that to get an article listed in a category you should add the category tag at the bottom of the intended article. Please don't add the name of the article explicitly in the text of categories.
 * 2) Regarding the category that can contain Kilan, please refer to Category talk:Cities in Iran and leave your suggestion.
 * --Pouya 09:07, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the explanation.

--Mani1 09:38, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Persian Gulf
Dear Mani,

I know that you have strong feelings on the naming of the Persian Gulf and on teh nomenclature used in the first line. I understand that you feel  the mentioning of the wrong name gives it a false credibility. While I actually share your feelings wrt the real name and your anger wrt attempts to change these by following the money and the oil from its souther shores I still believe that it is out of order to do a revert on the one bone of contention and call it a "minor" edit. It is not. It is actually disingenious, which I am sure you do not intend to appear as. Also - if you do look around you will see that all current serious contributors share your views reg the correct name - but believe to neglect mentioning the Arab-imposed version and the conflict around this would make the article biased and less credible. Please give this some thought before you do again a revert Refdoc 15:46, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Dear Refdoc,

If you visit all the unbiased sites and atlasses of the world from day one till today all of them have just one name for that body of water i.e. Persian Gulf. Only recently some very BIASED and scandalous sites use illegal newly-forged names for that. If wikipedia does not want to be biased and be associated with pirates and thives it should not refer to the illegal (according to UN resolutions) forgeries as (legitimate) "alternatives" for the established legal names. As I said before, if I want to add here all the alternative names the Arabs would like to use for the geographical names or for western girls or people, there will be nothing serious about wikipedia anymore. This bad Arab joke should stop somewhere before becoming serious. Thanks for your discussion of the matter. Take care, --Mani1 15:59, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Now Mani, this is not exactly true. Not everyone who uses Arabian Gulf is in cahoots with Arabian nationalists, is a fake or wants to cheat Iran out of its heritage. An this has nothing to do with western girls either - please stop being offensive! The Persian Gulf is a body of water. all names are a mixture of history, legality, convenience and personal preference. Names are symbols, but not the thing in itself. Long before Persia was teh guld was and long after Iran i will be gone, the gulf will sttill be. So - I have said this before and everyone else who is seriously contributing prefers Persian Guld and would personally never use anything else. But to to win this argument is a real way, not simply by making people go away, sent packing by endless revert wars, You need to be a bit more flexible and show that you are striving for NPOV - then it will be easy for others to follow your argument and agree. Refdoc 01:03, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * If "alternative names" people use for western girls or countries sound offensive to you (and me) then you can understand how offensive that Arab forgeries are to Iranians. (I think you wouldn't accept or tolerate those names to sit next to the names USA and blond in wikipedia, would you?).

I understand you feel obliged by Wikipedia rules to revert my edits. And I have been using the same rules to edit them again. I admit I have been impatient in examining and finding a Wikipedial correct way to lay out my arguments here, and that's the reason you gentelmen have to revert my edits (against your wills). I will try to find the time and eagerness to go through all Wikipedia's rules and find a way out of this vicious circle. Before I have done that I preserve the right to edit the articles as I think is correct. Free speech can cause complexities, I know. Take care. --Mani1 01:21, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Zazaki
You've made an interesting addition to Zazaki. Do you also have a book title or the like as reference? The Zazaki articles are victims of edit warring in all wikipedias, and IMHO the best counter-measure is expanding and giving references.

Strange anecdote: I had found an Zazaki grammar book (in german) ISBN 3928943960, and since I've put it in the de:Zazaki reference section, its Amazon sales rank is up from 3,500,000 to 650,000. Wondering, what this means in absolute numbers.

Pjacobi 23:48, 2005 Jan 14 (UTC)

Hi. One of my references about Daylamite origin of Zaza-Guranis is: Blau, "Gurani et Zaza," in R. Schmitt, ed., Compendium Linguarum Iranicarum, Wiesbaden, 1989, pp. 336-40

I added it to the article. See also: Encyclopaedia Iranica: Zazaki --Mani1 12:25, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Baha'i Faith
Hey Mani,

I know you love going around to every article and adding references to Iran, since you are very proud of your home country, but please don't keep adding the word "Iranian" to the first paragraph of the Baha'i Faith page. It will be changed back. Lower down in the article it does say that Baha'u'llah was a Persian nobleman, so there is no need to repeat. Also, the Baha'i Faith sees that all people of any race and colour are equal and we should be proud of our humanity and not of your country. -- Navidazizi 14:42 Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi. As thousands of articles on wikipedia start with sentences like "... the American author, ... the British architect, ... the Chinese prophet ...etc." I consider it to be no problem to mention at the beginning that Baha'ullah was an Iranian prophet. Insisting on making an exception in this article to avoid mentioning the name Iran on top is rather biased.

You advise me not be proud of my country and think that I am not proud of my humanity! How do you know I do not see all humans as equal? You are offensive and prejudist. You may not be proud of your country and culture but I am. I am proud of its good things and disapprove its negative sides. What is your real reason behind deleting the name of Iran on top? Shame of your background? Low self-confidence? --Mani1 16:03, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually Baha'u'llah was persian, Iran was not a country at the time of his life, so placing Iranian is actually incorrect. In the article, in the history location it clearly says Persian, so thus no need to restate it.  I am not ashamed of my culture.  I am canadian, I am proud of it's multi-culturality, it's allowance to allow me to keep some of my persian culture, but I don't go along putting canadian beside everything.  Iranians were the ones who killed 4 of my family members during the revolution.  Iranians are the ones who made my family escape from Iran, taking all of our possesions.  Even saying that most of my friends here in Toronto are muslim persians, but I don't go bragging about my heritage, canadian or iranian.  -- Navidazizi 17:00 Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually you are wrong. Iran was called Iran by Iranians, only in the Western countries it was knows as Persia. Both Bahaullah and Abdul-Baha referred to Iran as "Iran" in their Persian writings.  Have you even read any of their works?! Also, the fact that YOU (and other Bahais) think that the concept of nationality and culture and languges should go away, does not make it a universal rule (until Bahais finally rule the world).  In today's world, there are concepts of nationality, language, culture, etc, and thank god there are.  They are like the variety of flowers in the garden of humanity.  Bahaism wants to destroy all of them and make just one "nation".  Any intelligent person would ask himself why would god create us with different physical, geographical, and therefore, cultural characteristics if he wanted us all to be just one nation?   As an Iranian, I am not proud of Bahaullah, I think he was a crook, and there is plenty of evidence to show that he was, but that doesn't change the fact that he was an Iranian.  Don't impose your religious views on the whole world.


 * And you say "Iranians" killed your family during the revolution? Didn't muslims get killed during and after the revolution?  Many people of all walks of life were killed during and after the revolution, not just Bahais.  It seems that in your mind Bahai victims of some murderers are more of a "victim" than muslim victims of the same people?! So much for your "humanity is one" Bahai motto. This actually proves my point of the previous paragraph -- human beings are by their nature gregarious, and therefore, be it a nation or religion or other categorizations, we have a propensity to form groups.  This shows the Bahai concept of "one humanity, one nation, one religion" is only nice on paper, but against the human nature, as you yourself just demonstrated it unwittingly.     On another note, I understand that the modern-day version of the Azalis are the so-called "Orthodox Bahais" who are getting all sorts of evil treatment from the loving and peaceful Bahais! hehe ... God help humanity if one day you guys take over.  There will be ZERO tolerance for anything else.  --Amir 20:38, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I omited the name Persian down in the article and mentioned it in the first line. In this way your objection that, restating it is unnecessary, is solved.

Iran has always been a country, in the time of Baha'ullah too. I advise you to read more history. I am sorry about your family and I understand you have a personal vendetta with Iran but this encyclopaedia is not a place to fight your vendettas. As Persian and Iranian was synonymous before 1936 I used the name Persian instead of Iranian (which you don't like) in the first line. Whether you like it or not he was Persian (Iranian) and mentioning this fact early in the article only adds to the informative quality of the article. About me mentioning the name Iranian/Persian wherever neccessory, I advise you to do the same with the name Canadian wherever you see the information is incomplete. This will help wikipedia to present a more comprehensive and correct information. --Mani1 13:28, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I have no personal vendetta against Iran or Iranians. As I said before most of my friends are muslims persians.  What I disagree with is putting people's nationalities in front of every personage.  I would rather people not be known as nationalities, but rather for their actions (good or bad) regardless of nation.

What to mention on top of the articles

 * Now you omitted both references to him being Persian! This is encyclopaedia and if people go to the articles they want to get information such as where this or that person was from. If that kind of information does not interest you, you can not push other people not to want to know where this or that personality is from!

If I go to the article about a person, a.o. I would like to know where he/she was from. This is one of the first things many people want to know about persons. You do not like this information you can go on and read other lines. You can not omit information just because YOU are not interested in it. I can not go delete all the information about countries' currencies because I think it is not important to know! Stop defecting the article and let the information stay complete. Take care. --Mani1 15:07, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Can you please show when I reverted the text since we starting having this discussion? -- Fadeaway919 15:54, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)


 * Then it must have been someone else. My apologies.

--Mani1 16:25, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think you should now agree to have Arabian Gulf in the first line.... Refdoc 20:55, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I didn't see the Great Satan in the first line or the second or ...!

--Mani1 23:20, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

LOL!, but you DID see him, didn't you? It has survived in a very exposed position for more than a day. I guess you must give me some credite here! Refdoc 23:47, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * No. I truly didn't. I think I should check the history of that article then. As I said, if you can get the "Great Satan" ESTABLISHED as a normal alternative next to the name of the USA in the top line of the article, then the matter with the Persian Gulf article will difer too.

Take care. --Mani1 11:07, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, no, that would be too ambitious an aim. It is though firmly established in a new section "foreign policy", pretty much up in the article. I created the section. Refdoc 11:13, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * You have mentioned what Khomeini called that country but actually the whole government of the Islamic Republic uses that term (we also have to find out waht al-Qaeda calls that country).

Other names what some people want to call instead of the Persian Gulf is also mentioned in a large seperate article with link provided inside the Persian Gulf article. So you agree that putting A. Gulf or other names instead of established and historical and UN-approved name of the Persian Gulf on top is too ambitious an aim. --Mani1 11:28, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Exactly. And so I was happy with the final version, which you now so "kindly" deleted again. The wrong name was mentioned, reasonably wide up, but not bold. Mani, you are an all-or-nothing guy, aren't you? Please do show some respect to your fellow editors who have worked hard on finding a solution which is clear, unambigous (the correct name is at the top and alone) but also clarifies what all the fuss is about. "More information in the sub page" which you created - a good idea actually. Wrt Great Satan and the Iranian government - is this still the name used by the Khatamni government? Refdoc 11:49, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have also worked hard here for finding a solution. A few minutes ago I made a "final version" too and deleted one of the links to the Dispute over the name of the Persian Gulf which was repeated twice in the article. I see no reason why the information about the fake names has to be mentioned in the upper paragraphs and not somewhere else in the article as is the case with many other articles in Wikipedia. Let me know whether you like this final version too, or in case you don't what the reasons are.

Great Satan is still used in friday prayers and some governmental publications for reffering to the USA. --Mani1 15:55, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The quake
2005 Zarand earthquake --Pouya 21:14, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Farsi/Persian
I think the reason people put "Farsi" into the template is not so much to quote the local term, but to document the increasing use of the term "Farsi" in English. Certainly many English speaking people will look at me with glazed eyes if I say speak "Persian" but suddenly understand when I say "Farsi". Not enough motivate dthough to start an editwar over this :-) Refdoc 17:57, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * And in more educated circles people will immediately correct you if you use the local word i.e. "Farsi" instead of the English equivalent: Persian, (when talking or writing in English).
 * In my opinion the official and correct forms belong in an encyclopaedia not the mistakes the laymen might increasingly make.

--Mani1 18:04, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I would dispute this. People in English speaking countries have long stopped talking about "correct" versions of words/grammar etc - if a word is used by a large minority it will find its way into dictionaries and encyclopedias. Few countries subscribe to a top-down approach. I know Iran did (or does), France does, Turkey does, but these countries are increasingly in a minority. Refdoc 18:10, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * There are no official and correct forms in English. Farsi is not a mistake; it's an alternate name. Please at least stop being obtuse on the edit summaries; it's not the local word, it's an alternate English name of the language. --Prosfilaes 02:37, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Farsi is the local name and Persian is the English name. This fact and the alternative names are mentioned in the article on Persian. A small information table is not a place for naming the alternative names, as we see in the case of all other countries. Only for Iran is the "alternative" (local) name of the language mentioned in that table. If you insist on that, then you should put the alternative names all over those tables for all the countries. --Mani1 10:08, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Mani, you are quite wrong here. "Farsi" is widely used in the UK and other countries as another valid name for the Iranian dialect of Persian. Please have a look at following google search for official governmental pages in the UK interestingly enough the equivalent search in official government pages in the throws up only a fraction of the results and most of these results are either mentioning "Persian" as the alternative to Farsi or are histoical references to Persian culture and history, not references to the language. Refdoc 10:19, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * None of the main dictionaries, encyclopaedias etc. mention the word "Farsi". You are right and there is much confusion about Persian language these days (some think "Farsi" (the local name for Persian in all three Persian-speaking countries) is the Iranian version of Persian!, some think "Farsi" is Persian as a whole!, some think "Farsi" is another language and they don't know it is the same as Persian, some know it is the local name for Persian, some think Persian is the older version of "Farsi"! ...

To avoid all this misinformation and confusion we should stick to the formal name which is used in all serious references i.e. Persian. As I said even if you insist on naming the "alternative" names in the article itself there is no need for naming it every time a word is used especially in a small table. --Mani1 10:52, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Move of "Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf"
Dear Mr Mani1, you moved "Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf" to "Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Persian Gulf". I consider that a quite unacceptable vandalism and a lie -- the organization is NOT named that. The organization's name is the organization name, no matter how much said name offends you, and you can't simply *wish* it to be different anymore than I can wish George Bush to have been named Bozo the Clown instead. I'll be moving the page back, and if you lyingly move it yet again for your propagandistic purposes, I'll do everything I can within Wikipedia process to see you banned from editing anything Middle-eastern related ever again. Cheers. Aris Katsaris 07:24, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the point. But somebody should ban you from any public place for using such a bad language and such a nervous tone. Cool down and take a calm breath, man. Take care. --Mani1 10:06, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

&#1579;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740;/&#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740;
Mani, I saw your post at Zereshk's user page, and I wanted to comment before you got exercised over the Persian User template currently in development. These are based on the Unicode standard, so I think we are stuck with the FA designator. And I have to admit to saying "Farsi" a lot myself, because that's what I've learned to do. In contemporary America, "Persian" is often assumed to be an incorrect label stemming from Orientalism instead of the favored term that it actually is. I try to use "Persian," but sometimes I slip.

While I can't change the "FA" symbol, I can make sure that the Persian User template 3.0 says "Persian" in the translation portion. {Right now, it's all written in Persian, but they want to start adding an English translation to every button so that English-speakers know what language it is).

As far as the Persian version goes, changing &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; to &#1579;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; is problematic. I had a very difficult time getting all the combinations of Persian characters and Latin-alphabet code to work together properly, because of the right-to-left vs. left-to-right issue. The HTML tags for addressing this don't seem to work on Wikipedia. But more importantly, might not some Iranian users consider the usage archaic, even though it is more historically correct? And of course a Persian-speaker in Afghanistan would call it &#1583;&#1575;&#1585;&#1740;, and a Tajik wouldn't be able to read this template at all, even though he could converse with you in Persian. So I'm trying to do the best I can here -- and I can't even speak or read Persian well enough to qualify as an "fa-1" on Babel scale. You could help me out if you put the tag below on your Userpage to test if everything is working:

As I've said, FA we're stuck with, and I'd like to keep &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740;, but everything else can be changed. Please jump right in and edit yourself, or if you don't feel comfortable with that, post any corrections you think are necessary on my userpage.

Sorry for making this so long. Khodahafiz! --Jpbrenna 00:56, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks a lot for paying attention to the matter. If the English tanslation of the template says the correct form i.e. Persian it's very good. As for naming our language in the Persian language itself you presented two option: &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Fârsi) and &#1579;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Thârsi!). I suppose by &#1579;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Thârsi) you mean &#1662;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Pârsi). I should tell you that Pârsi is not used by the Persian-speakers today and it is a historical form many wish to make alive again. But right now the only official and currect form is &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Fârsi). Notice that the name of the language in Persian itself is &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Fârsi) and not in English. So if you try to use PERSIAN when writing in English, using &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Fârsi) when writing in Persian and using Persisch when writing German etc. you are correct. I don't know much about the template itself. I will try to learn more about it and try to help if I can. As for Afghans in daily life and daily talk they call their language also &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; (Fârsi) but their government uses "Dari" on the papers, for political reasons. So all the Afghan visitors know exactly what you mean by &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; and Persian. The Tajiks all know the meaning of the word Persian in an English text and the ones who have learned Perso-Arabic script understand &#1601;&#1575;&#1585;&#1587;&#1740; too.

Khodahafez. Take care, --Mani1 07:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Persian template
Thanks very much for those template, I am looking forward to use them. --Sina 21:00, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fantastic idea to create those user language templates for Persian language. There was a technicality in listing category: User fa-1, category: User fa-2 and category: User fa-3 under category: User languages that I corrected. --Pouya 19:26, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your replies. Actually Jpbrenna made those templates and I just introduced them. It is indeed nice to have such templates. Take care, Qorban-e shoma, --Mani1 21:22, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ahvaz and Khuzestan pages need help
Salam,

User:Zora has been a royal pain in the ass for the past few weeks, CONSTANTLY trying to delete, censor, and REVISE these two pages painfully written and referenced by me and User:SouthernComfort.

She is trying to substitute a Pan-Arab version she got from British Al-Ahwazi websites instead. She claims the name Ahvaz is not even Iranian. (!!!)

I dont know why Wikipedia even allows revisionists like her to run around like this.

Your help there could be gratefully used.--Zereshk 02:34, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Stubs
Thanks for adding the Abu Said Gardizi article. As part of WikiProject Stub sorting, I replaced the generalized    tag with   . When you create new articles, it would be great if you could use these more specific tags whenever possible. Thanks, and continue contributing to Wikipedia! RussBlau 16:04, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I'll certainly do that,

Take care --Mani1 16:10, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Qarun Treasure
Hello, and thanks for your assistance on the List of mythical objects article. I do have a question, though. On the list, you added an item called the "Qarun Treasure". Can you give a brief explanation what that is? I have not been able to find it on the net, and I'm sure readers of the article would like a brief description of it. Thanks again for your assistance.--Mitsukai 03:26, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Pardis
You have said "The new Pardis satellite city has absorbed over 9,775 inhabitants with the figure expected to reach 75,000 by the year 2005."

This is not appropriate in this article, as this information will go out of date very quickly. The information in Wikipedia should be able to stay current for some time; this will be stale within a few months. Denni &#9775; 2005 July 3 18:31 (UTC)

Islam to Persia
Your changing many articles from Islam to [Persia]], and from Arab to Muslim. Can you explain that? Stbalbach 7 July 2005 15:13 (UTC)

Those were just a few instances. The reason is that Persian was more acurate in those cases, such as American inventions is a more acurate term than the "Christian inventions"! And in that one case that I changed Arab into Muslim, it was because it also consisted of non-Arab Muslims alongside the Arab ones, and a more general term was needed. --Mani1 7 July 2005 17:00 (UTC)

Image:Persian sunset.gif
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Hello, thank you for the message. I had downloaded that colour from the background of an ad in a shopping website long time ago. I searched again and could'nt find that site anymore. I actually thought the image of just a colour had no copyright, like the white colour on this screen has no copyright! Please proceed as you see suitable. Take care. --Mani1 8 July 2005 09:35 (UTC)

Persian grammar
Hi Mani1, I would like to ask you some questions about the Persian language. (I have been studying the language for a few months and am stuck on some grammatical points). I am aware that Wikipedia is not a medium to find people to learn or teach a language, but I am not asking you to teach me Persian. Just a few grammar constructions that I am stuck with, and I cannot seem to find any help from other internet resources. Will you be able to answer them? No problem if you will not be able to. Thanks in advance. --Nonewmail 15 July 2005 10:43 (UTC)

Salaam. I'll be happy to help. You can write the questions here. I'll answer them on your user page. Take care. --Mani1 16:09, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Tešekkor mikonœm. I will write my question in sub groups:

The prefix "be"
From the article Persian grammar, I saw that the prefix "be" conveys the subjunctive meaning.

How about this sentence:

"I want to eat an apple" (NOT "I want an apple"; I want to know how you say the structure "want to VERB")

Is it, "Mixanæm sibi bexoræm" OR "Mixanæm sibi xoræm" (with or without the prefix "be")?

What about the same in the past tense?

"I wanted to eat an apple"

Is it,

"Mixastæm sibi bexoræm" OR "Mixastæm sibi xoræm" (the same question)

Also, in the past tense, can you also say "Xastæm" instead of "Mixastæm" for "I wanted"?

As you can see, I am not exactly sure when to use and when not to use the prefix "be". Is there an easy general rule about this.

I guess this is good for now. I have more to ask, but once I know about this, it will make more sense to ask the other questions.

Thanks a lot --User: Nonewmail


 * Hi,

The subjunctive-marker be- is used:
 * 1. in the case of uncertainty (i.e. after shâyad (maybe), agar (if), bâyad (must) and the like.
 * 2. If there are more than two verbs in a sentence (no matter past or present) the second, third .... verb begin with be-.

So you see that when you have to use "to" before the second verb in English you have to use "be-" in Persian.

So the correct forms are:
 * "Mixahæm sibi bexoræm"
 * "Mixastæm sibi bexoræm"

About your question: "in the past tense, can you also say "Xastæm" instead of "Mixastæm" for I wanted"

Xâstam and mixâstam are two different tences.
 * Xâstam means "I wanted",
 * Mixâstam means "I used to want".

Adding mi- to the simple past tence makes it durative. For many verbs like "mi-did-am" you can always translate it in English as "I used to see" but for the sense-related verbs like "mixâstam" depending on the context both "I want" or "I used to want" can serve as English translation.

I hope I have been able to help you. I am at your service for other questions, (we can follow here in my user page). Take care. --Mani1 21:04, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. Then can we use the prefix "be" in all the following examples(?):

and so on...
 * I like/love VERBing (for example "Zeban yad begirem dust darem" ("I love learning languages") (?)
 * I tried to VERB
 * I hate VERBing (for example "az benevisad moteneffer ast" ("he hates writing") (?) (I have a feeling that this is a little different)
 * I started/ended VERBing

- Khâesh mikonam (you're welcome).


 * I like/love VERBing ("Zeban yad gereftan dust darem". Gereftan is the infinitive.
 * I tried to VERB. (Sa'y kardam be-Verb-am).
 * He hates VERBing ("az neveshtan moteneffer ast"
 * I started/ended VERBing. (Shoru' karam neveshtan).

As you see for VERBing we use normally the infinitive form in Persian.

Can, may, should, must
I already learnt these before, but now that I have a clearer picture of the usage of the prefix "be," I would just like to ask one example for each auxillary verb to make sure that I am using it right. Thanks in advance.

Can:


 * "I can go to school" Is it "mitevanem beh medreseh rævæm" ?(from where I learnt, the prefix "be" was not used in "can")


 * "I could go to school" IS it "mitevanestem beh medreseh ræftæm" ??

May, might:

I know how to say "might have VERBed"


 * "I might have eaten that apple" should be "shayæd an sib ra xordeh bashæm" (is this true?, the website I learnt from does not use the prefix "be")

But I do not know how to say "might VERB":


 * "I might eat that apple" ??

Should, must:

Again I know how to say "must have VERBed"


 * "I must have eaten that apple" Is it "bayæd an sib ra mixordæm" ? (the website I learnt from does not use the prefix "be" here.)

But I do not know how to say "must VERB"


 * "I must eat that apple" ??

This was a bit long, but thanks a lot for taking your time to answer them. I really appreciate it.

-- Can:

Be- is used here because it is the second verb. (In literature and some instances of the spoken language be-can be omited, whenever you see a verb without a be- or mi- you can be sure it has been the be- which is omited thus it is subjunctive, mi- is never omited).
 * "I can go to school" is "mitevanem beh medreseh beravam".

Like in English the present tence is used for "go".
 * "I could go to school" is "mitavânestem beh medreseh be-rav-am".

May, might:

xorde bâsham is the subjunctive from for the past tences. In the past tence -bâsh- (historically be+ast) is used for making the subjunctive form.
 * "I might have eaten that apple" is indeed "shayæd an sib ra xordeh bashæm".


 * "I might eat that apple": "Shâyad ân sib-ra be-xoram".

Should, must:


 * "I must have eaten that apple" Is "bâyad an sib râ xorde bâsham"


 * "bayæd an sib râ mixordæm" means: "I had to eat that apple".


 * "I must eat that apple" is: "Bâyad âan sib râ be-xor-am.

It's bedtime here now, I hope I can be at your service tommorow. Iyi Geceler, --Mani1 23:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

If
Teshekkor mikonam.

---
 * Agar in sib râ be-xor-am ... (If I eat this apple ...)

The first be- is because of (uncertainty), the second because it is the second verb.
 * Agar be-xâh-i be-xor-i. (If you whould want to eat).


 * Agar mi-xâh-i bexori. (If you want to eat).


 * Agar xâsti bexori. (If you wanted to eat).


 * Agar mi-xâsti bexori. (If you always wanted to eat).

Past subjunctive:
 * Agar xorde-bâshi. (If you have eaten).

Iyi Gunler. --Mani1 10:51, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * "if you don't go to school today, you will be punished" Is: "agar emruz beh medreseh na-rævi, tanbih xâhi shod".

Negation of subjunctive: The be- is replaced by na-.


 * How about the 2nd kind of "if" (subjunctive):
 * "if you ate the entire cake, you would get sick." is "Agar hame-ye Kayk râ mi-xordi (ehtemâlan) mariz mi-shod-i.

The durative past tence (mixordi) has as subjunctive the same form (mixordi). Ehtemâlan means possibly.


 * "If you had not eaten that cake, you would not have thrown up". is: "Agar ân Kayk râ na-xorde-budi, bâlâ ne-mi-âvardi.

Ne-mi-âvardi is the subjunctive of the durative (repeatetive) form mi-âvardi (you brought during a certain time). Bâlâ means up.

Tækrar (that means "again"(?)) teshekkor mikonæm. Correct form: Dobâreh (again) tashakkor mikonam.

Active voice:

Indicative --> Subjunctive:
 * miravam --> beravam
 * xâham raft --> beravam


 * raftam --> rafte bâsham
 * rafteh-am (I have gone) --> rafte bâsham


 * mi-raftam --> mi-raftam


 * rafte budam (I had gone) --> rafte budeh bâsham

Passive voice:

Indicative --> Subjunctive:
 * xorde mi-shavam (I am (being) eaten) --> xorde be-shavam
 * xorde xâham shod (I'll be eaten) --> xorde beshavam.


 * xorde shodam (I was eaten) --> xorde shode bâsham
 * xorde shodeh-am (I have been eaten) --> xorde shode bâsham


 * xorde mi-shodam (I used to be eaten) --> xorde mi-shodam


 * xorde shode budam (I had been eaten) --> xorde shode budeh bâsham.

Khâhesh mikonam (You're welcome). --Mani1 11:31, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Future perfect tense
Again thanks a lot. Maybe you should corporate some of the material here into the main article "Persian grammar." These are very helpful.

How about the future perfect tense:


 * "By the time spring comes, he will have already left.

Is the second part is like "terk kerdeh khahed bud" ?

---

I am happy it has been helpful to you. Yes I think I will add the tences, moods and voices to that article in the future.

We use just the tence based on "present participle" i.e. "rafte ast" for "Will have VERB-ed".
 * "By the time spring comes, he will have already left. is : "Bahâr ke be-ây-ad, u digar rafte ast/u injâ râ tark karde-ast".

Movaffaq bâshid. --Mani1 16:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Just a quick question. Why don't you say "Bahâr ke mi-ây-ad", but say "Bahâr ke be-ây-ad," in the example here?


 * "Bahâr ke be-ây-ad" means: "When (in the case/if) spring comes"


 * "Bahâr ke miâyad" means: "When (every time) the spring comes".

Imperatives
I have learnt that imperatives can be built in two ways: with or wihout the prefix "bo":


 * Go! --> Ro! or Boro!

Is this the case for all verb imperatives? Does the prefix "bo" have an additional meaning?

Thanks.

-- Basically all the imperatives are made as; be+present stem, whithout personal endings (except for 2nd person plural). using imperative without be- is found in literary works and in spoken Persian in the case of much used verbs be- is omited in combinations. like: Behtar (be-)sho! "become better". bâz (be-)kon! "Open"!

Next thing you should know is that under the influence of "o" in some frequently used verb stems preffix be- is pronounced bo- in standard spoken Persian. Thus: Boro, Boxor, bokon but: begu, beshuy (Wash!), bedân (Know!). The same happens to be- becoming bi- in spoken language in some cases like: bi-yâ (come!), bi-âr (be-âvar) )bring!) etc.

When, While
Are all the sentences that are constructed with "when" and "while" in English are expressed with "ke" in Persian? And do we place this particle right before the verb? (just like "Bahar ke beayed")

And do we always use the prefix "be" in sentences of "when" and "while"

Just two examples:
 * Present, future meaning:
 * "When you (will) come home, make tea!" Could it be "beh khane ke be-ay-i, (bo)saz chai!" ?


 * Past meaning:
 * "When he came home, he made tea" Could it be "be khane ke amed, chai saxt" ?

When is expressed in two ways:
 * Vaqti ke / moghe'i ke ....
 * .... ke .... (ke comes after the agent).


 * "When you (will) come home, make tea!" is: "Xâneh ke mi-ây-i châi dorost (be)kon". or: Vaghti ke be xâneh mi-ây-i châi dorost (be)kon".


 * "When he came home, he made tea" is: "Xâneh ke âmad, châi dorost kard". or: "Vaghti ke/moghe'i ke/zamâni ke/hengâmi ke be xâneh âmad châi dorost kard".

Take care. --Mani1 21:16, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Causatives
The source that I used to learn Persian never taught causatives. How would you, for example, build this sentence in Persian:


 * "I made him do his homework"

And how about this other kind of causative:


 * "I had the letter sent to your office"

--Nonewmail 23:19, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

-

For the causative you should use the causative forms of the verb stems. The rest is the same as normal. Causative form of a stem is made by adding -ân to the normal present or past stem:
 * -xor- (eating), -xorân (making to eat), xorând (made eating).
 * mi-dav-am: ("I run"), sag râ mi-dav-ân-am ("I make the dog run").

But you can not do that with just any verb. For many verbs you should use another verb which has the causative meaning of the same action:

(Vâdâr kardan means "making somebody doing something, forcing", the causative stem -kon-ân- does not exist)
 * "I made him do his homework" : "Vâdâr-ash kardam mashgh be-nevis-ad".

For the form "had him doing ..., we say in Persian "I gave ...":

(Literally: "I gave, they bring the letter to your office".
 * "I had the letter sent to your office" is: "Nameh râ dâdam be-âvar-and daftar-e shomâ".

--Mani1 13:53, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Although, despite
Thanks for the explanation of the causatives. My next question is about building sentences with "although" and "despite":


 * "Although I arrived at the station on time, I missed the train" and,
 * "Despite arriving at the station on time, I missed the train"

Again, unfortunately I never learnt this. But I am sure one example of each will give me a good idea how these constructions are generally used. Teshekkor mikonam.

---


 * "Although I arrived at the station on time, I missed the train" is: "Bâ inke/Garcheh sar-e vaqt be istgâh residam, qatâr râ az dast dâdam".
 * "Despite arriving at the station on time, I missed the train" Is: "Bâ vojud-e inke/alâraghm-e inke sar-e vaqt be istgâh residam, qatâr râ az dast dâdam".

You can also say: "Sar-e vaqt be istgâh residam, vali qatâr rafteh-bud".

Exhortations
How would you say things like "let's verb!", "let me verb!"? For example with the verb "write"? Do you use the past participle ("nevesht") or the present particle ("nevis") for this kind of exhortations?

Thanks.

--- For the first form we use "Biyâ" (come). For the second one: "be-gozâr" (Let).

"*Let's write!" : "Biyâ be-nevis-im". "Let me write" : "Be-gozâr benevisam".

Khâhesh mikonam. --Mani1 09:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Qiyamah
Any expertise you could lend to the Qiyamah page would be much appreciated. Thanks. freestylefrappe 03:02, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Please add a reference to Flying Throne of Kai Kavus
I have not been able to find anything out about this. Please add (either to the article, or the talk page) an explanation of how you learned about it, so future editors will have something more to build on. This is important, as otherwise the article may be deleted as being unverifiable. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! JesseW 02:10, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi. I added some references. Thank you for reminding. Take care. --Mani1 11:28, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Morgan Schuster/Shuster
Hi, I noticed you composed the entry for Morgan Schuster. As I was adding to that entry, I discovered that his last name is likely spelled without a "c", or Morgan Shuster. If you notice, the Shuster spelling has its own page already with some nice photos. I think the two English pages should be merged and your Farsi page should link directly. But before I did anything rash, I wanted your input. Thanks &mdash; Friejose 21:53, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the attention to that article. I would say proceed with the plan you have. By the way the proper name of our language in English is Persian. "Farsi" is the local Persian name for it. Compare: German/Deutsch. Take care,

--Mani1 21:01, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to let you know that I merged the two; thanks for your input. Friejose 14:49, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Vinegar
Hello, I saw that you added a link to the Persian vinegar article. Is there any information there (or any information that you know) which could be added to the English article, especially as regards its use in Iran or neighboring countries? I know that raisin vinegar is produced in Turkey but little information is available about it; if there are other varieties or uses of vinegar in Persian culture it might be good to have in the article. Thanks for your expertise. Badagnani 21:21, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I will try to compare the two articles in the future and if I see extra information in the Persian (the correct name of the language in English, "Farsi" is wrong) I will add them to the English article. Thanks for the message, Take care. --Mani1 18:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Deletion
Hi Mani,

Please check out Ruzbeh and Information Technology Channel if you have time.


 * ITC was very nice, thanks Behdad, but I could not see Ruzbeh.

--Mani1 17:04, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Translations
Thanks for your translation! -- user:zanimum

Any time. --Mani1 17:04, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

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Albizia julibrissin
Wow! Many thanks for your speedy reply! That is a great help. SiGarb 23:14, 1 January 2006 (UTC)


 * You are welcome.

--Mani1 23:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Babur translation?
You seem to be on top of persian derivations of the names of Mughal emperors. Can you please have a look at Babur and determine whether the name is derived from "tiger", "leopard" or "Beaver"? thanks.--Nemonoman 02:02, 4 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi.

The sentence " "Babur" (derived from Persian "Babr" meaning "leopard")" is the correct information.

Take care. --Mani1 18:33, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Al-Biruni
You moved Al-Biruni to Biruni by copy&paste. That is not good as it destroys the page history. It is good that next time you want to make a page move you post it at Requested moves so that an administrator can do it by moving the page history. Cheers, Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 15:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi.

Thanks indeed for showing the right way.

Take care. --Mani1 20:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Persian drill
Hey, what's your source on Persian drill? I can't find anything. Melchoir 04:23, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi.

One of the sources:

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913).

Thanks for checking the article. Take care. --Mani1 19:32, 7 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, I see. It sounds like an interesting tool, but every source on the Internet is the same as Webster: not much information. Well, thanks! Melchoir 20:36, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Manipulating articles related to Persians
Dear Mani, a few Kurdish wikipedianss are trying to destroy pages related to persians. For example for three days they keep on putting Ahmadinejad and Khomeini's picture as representatives of Persian people. and using Farsis instead of Persian people and so on. Please keep eye on edits by User:Mesopotamia. They do not understand that this is an encyclopedia not a place to take historical revenge. All kurdish pages are written in a way to show that persians are bastards. They are refering to kurds as non Iranian people. I think Persians and Kurds should try to help each other as their culture are very close. Any way, Please keep eye on pages related to persians for example: Persian people. Thanks a lot. -- Joe Dynue09:59, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi.

In my opinion it is more a third pary who wants to create trouble between the Kurds and Persians. Thanks for the message. I'll do whatever I can to edit those articles.

Take care. --Mani1 19:21, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Iranian cultural continent
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Reform
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Persians
The user Aucaman has been vandalizing Persian people, as well as several other Iran-related articles, claiming that "modern Persians are mix of Arabs and Mongols" editing the article, or adding a dispute tag, based on his own personal assumptions and conclusions without any valid source to support such outrageous revisionist theory. If you have an opinion on this topic, please join the Talk:Persian_people, so we can reach a consensus for the removal of the "dispute tag". --ManiF 18:23, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Iranian Watchdog
Aucaman and a few others like Heja Helweda and Diyako have been repeatedly and systematically vandalizing the Iran-related topics such as Persian people and Iranian peoples, propagating false information, maliciously editing/disputing/deleting without one shred of proof to backup their wild claims, applying the strawman falsification approach, trying to establish new 'facts" based on their own personal assumptions and beliefs.

In order to prevent this situation, we need to create an Iranian Watchdog on Wikipedia and guard the integrity and quality of all the Wikipedia articles that are related to Iran and Iranians. Please let me know if you think that's a good idea. --ManiF 13:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

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Systematic vandalism on Iran-related articles reported: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#User:Aucaman_and_User:Heja_helweda_and_User:Diyako

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Wikiproject Iran
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Iranian Azerbaijan
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I just wanted to let you know that user, khoikhoi (MOD) keeps including the very offensive term, "south azerbaijan" on the Iranian Azerbaijan page. We should not let him post this propoganda and false information. That term has no place in an encycolpedia article. It is not relevent to the content. What a few seperatists call that region should not be shown here. If we dont stop this, people will start including the "a#abian gulf" as an alternate name on the Persian gulf page.

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Persian or Farsi ?
Dear mani: I couldn't sleep and I was reading your talks. Very nice.You make me very proud. Since you informed me about the word farsi being use wrongly in english ,I am trying to use Persian. But the funny part is that every time I say Persian, the American people look at my with uncertainly and ask me "is Persian the same as Farsi?" Then I have to explain to them that actually Farsi is the Persian version of Persian and that is how we call it in Iran.I feel that it is already a little bit too late to save the word Persian for Farsi here in USA. I think it was used wrongly by Iranians here for too long, possibly over 25 years. So it will be very hard to change it and is feels like it is almost ireversible now. Unless serious movement is created with help of media to : First teach Iranins to use the correct version and then teach none-Iranians that we like to call our language persian and not farsi. I will not visit your talk page for a while so e-mail me. You have my e-mail address. Keep in touch. Ghorbanat Parastoo