Re: correction (was: Not all Arabics are created equal...)

[Roozbeh Pournader]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Gregg Reynolds wrote:

> But in any case, this doesn't change the main point:  Persian may be
> spoken MSD-first, but its written forms are LSD-first.

No. Except when adding etc. (just like in English), Persian numbers are
written MSD-first. When I (and any other Persian speaker I know) try to
write something like "I have 12 books", which is "man 12 ketaab daaram" in
Persian, I write it in this fashion:

                                          M
                                         AM
                                        NAM
                                     1  NAM
                                     12 NAM
                                   K 12 NAM
                                  EK 12 NAM
                                        ...
                       MARAAD BAATEK 12 NAM

This means that Persian is also written MSD-first.

--roozbeh