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- From: ahmad@norooz.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ahmad Alavi)
- Subject: Farhangestan (was Re: chAleh meydoon)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.180712.4478@msdhsv.ingr.com>
- Keywords: gerdAli
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- Reply-To: ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com
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- References: <1992Nov18.033440.21057@mdd.comm.mot.com> <amoojoon.158@ghahveh.khooneh.mash.yadollAh> <7940@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:07:12 GMT
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- In article <7940@charon.cwi.nl>, farhad@cwi.nl (Farhad Arbab) writes:
- |> Actually the (in)famous Farhangestan was not during the Shah's
- |> years, but during his father's, Reza Shah. There are many such
- |> stories, most of which are pure fiction, but, of course, they
- |> are entertaining. Another famous one is the following.
- |>
- |> Here is a (partial) list of allegedly official Farhangestan "pure
- |> Persian" equivalents for some of the concepts in geometry.
- |>
- |> Circle dAyereh gerdekAn
- |> Line khat derAzi
- |> Point noghte bi hame chiz (without anything)
- |> Tangent momAs mAlidan
- |>
- |> Consequently, the statement "We make a tangent line from a point to
- |> a circle." which is "az noghte-i khatti bar dAyereh-i momAs
- |> mikonim." becomes "az bi hame chizi derAzi bar gerdekAni mimAlim."
- |>
- |> (Check with someone fluent in Persian slang to find the double
- |> meaning here.) Imagine the fun that the immature "hungry" teen-agers
- |> used to have with this statement (and the like) in sexually
- |> segregated high-schools back then.
- |>
- |> Cheers,
- |>
- |> Farhad Arbab
- |> Interactive Systems
- |> Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
- |> Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam
- |> The Netherlands
- |> Email: farhad@cwi.nl Fax: +31 20 592-4199
- |> Phone: +31 20 592-4056 Telex: 12571 mactr nl
- |>
- |>
-
- Farhangestan has contributed a lot to our today's language. Here is
- a few words that Farhangestan has added to Farsi. Aren't these
- simple and beatiful?
-
- 1. shahrbAnE (nazmE-eh)
- 2. dArAE (mAlE-eh)
- 3. dAdgostarE (adlE-eh)
- 4. shahrdArE (baladE-eh)
- 5. dAdgAh (?)
-
- Let's add to the list.
-
- Ahmad
- ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com
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