Re: [PipingDesign] OT: Farsi or Persian?

From: <Kevin>
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 11:28:00 EDT

Sorry,
I meant the gulf region.

I dont know in what mood I wrote that. Any language can be good to be a technical language.
I apologise if anybody is hurt with my remarks.

KG

• Original Message ---- From: Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> To: PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:21:58 PM Subject: Re: [PipingDesign] OT: Farsi or Persian?

On Apr 12, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Kevin Green wrote:

> Persian is one of the ancient languages of the region along with
> Arabic.

Farsi is spoken in Iran. It isn't Arabic, nor for that matter are the Iranians. I don't think I'd be so quick to say it's not intended as a scientific language. There's an enormous body of Farsi literature, which surely includes a lot of the classical scientific and mathematical works that eventually found their way to Europe.

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Sun Apr 13 11:28:00 2008