The problem here is that you're receiving the Daily Digest form of the list so you're mixing and matching two different topics. Possibly three with the Outlook question that also crept in. However, in general I plead guilty to all charges of contradicting myself. If you have some input on the abbreviation issue I hereby ask you share it now. I don't think at this point any more votes are going to have much impact on the results however, as you can see, the *analysis* has proved very interesting and I've learned a lot. -Connie
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Jalal Maleki wrote: > Well Mr. Bobroff, > > Aren't you contradicting yourself. You first restrict the > discussion to people inside Iran and exclude others because > they may have been influenced by another language and now > you are interested in Afghan and Tajik data!? Don't you > think that there is a chance that Tajiks, for example, would > have probably been infected by the abbreviation conventions of > other languages? > > Jalal Maleki > Sweden > > >> > >> Please email me your answer: yes, no, often, rarely, never... according > >> to what you've seen and I'll summarize. Again, those living > >> outside Iran, please don't participate because you may have been > >> influenced by another language. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -Connie > >> _______________________________________________ > > >Omid, > > > >Thanks and good idea. > > > >Why not also include Afghan and Tajik data? No one is looking out for > >them. For example, I recently tried to figure out the date in Afghanistan. > >There are dozens of online converters but all they've done I think is take > >FarsiWeb's Jalali converter and change Esfand to Hut, etc with no > >attention to the different way the leap year is calculated making the > >calendar useless. (Luckily someone finally provided me with a trustworthy > >off-line calendar.) Then I tried to type a paragraph in Tajik and the best > >font I could find was a hacked Times New Roman which was unusable. A side > >benefit to taking the other "Persians" into consideration is that it > >brings up issues of Iran Persian which might have otherwise gone > >unnoticed. > > > >Just a humble suggestion. > > > >-Connie > > > > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing > _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
