Re: Persian or Farsi? (was RE: Decimal separator with more than o ne c haracter?)

From: Thomas M. Widmann (thomas@widmann.uklinux.net)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 13:21:06 EDT

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    Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu> writes:

    > On Sat, 24 May 2003, Noah Levitt wrote:
    >
    > > > > Iranian, a. and n.
    > > > > [...]
    > > > > 2. The Iranian language.
    > > >
    > > > Which doesn't make any sense to me at all. What is the *Iranian*
    > > > language?! Which edition of OED is this?
    > >
    > > oed.com. (My employer has a subscription.)
    >
    > Weird. Anybody able to shed some light?

    I presume they just mean "the language of Iran". I wouldn't worry too
    much about it (although you might want to contact them).

    /Thomas 

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