I've seen it in the calendars. Masoud
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 07:47:31AM -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > Iranian guys, would you please do a short statistical survey? > > > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Omid K. Rad wrote: > > > On Sun, 15 May 2004, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > > > > > > It is still "Amordad"; I was going to point it out here > > > > to discuss, as I did not find about it in the archives. -Omid > > > > > > The answer is really simple: Have you ever seen "Amordad" > > > printed *anywhere*? That's like using Pahlavi instead of > > > Modern Persian. > > > > In fact I myself use 'Mordad' ordinarily, because I'm simply used to it. > > But since I was drawn to this calendar thing I realized that the correct > > word is actually 'Amordad' whose initial ALEF is dropped over a > > not-so-long time, because of the simplicity to pronounce. The initial > > ALEF in Persian was used to negate a noun, thus Amordad which means 'the > > month of no-death' or 'the month of life' has now altered to Mordad > > meaning 'the month of death'. It was interesting for me when I found > > that many *printed* almanacs observe to use the original word and I had > > never noticed that. My mind always saw 'Amordad' and read 'Mordad'. So I > > was thinking why not have another exception in our literature such as > > the VAAV in words 'khaahesh' and 'khaahar' that is written but not read. > > Write 'Amordad' and read 'Mordad' to have the modern word while not > > corruptting the old good meaning. > > > > I don't have many calendars in hand here, but when I was in Iran I found > > many calendars that use 'Amordad' instead of 'Mordad'. I took a photo of > > the only Iranian calendar I have here for you too see an instance. > > > > Omid > > > > --behdad > behdad.org > _______________________________________________ > PersianComputing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
