jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
>Danny Wier scripsit:
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>>I bought a "Teach Yourself" book once in Seattle; for Modern Persian (it's
>>called Farsi, morons!).
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>Calling Persian "Farsi" in English is like calling German "Deutsch".
>It isn't exactly *wrong*, just unidiomatic and unhistorical. In addition,
>saying "Farsi" implicitly excludes the Persian spoken by Afghans ("Dari").
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I disagree. I'd say Farsi is now the more common name. Unhistorical,
perhaps, but not analogous to calling German "Deutsch".