On 12/02/2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not really, Arabic and Hebrew both belong to the Semitc family of > languages. Farsi, on the other hand, despite being written with a > similar alphabet to Arabic, belongs to the Indo-European family (which > incidentally is the same one that English belongs to), so the languages > are quite different.
Thanks, I did not know that. We have many Farsi in Israel, and I'm surprised that that fact has eluded me until now. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?