Twitter discussion

**vartan** · 01-30-2012, 08:58

It's not Farsi Ibo, it's Persian. Not that it matters. I can picture you going around speaking of such languages as Hayeren, Italiano, Espanol, and so on. Totally ;)

**Blxz** · 01-30-2012, 11:07

Originally Posted by vartan

It's not Farsi Ibo, it's Persian. Not that it matters. I can picture you going around speaking of such languages as Hayeren, Italiano, Espanol, and so on. Totally ;)

Vous ne parlez pas français?

**Ibrahim** · 01-30-2012, 19:23

Originally Posted by vartan

It's not Farsi Ibo, it's Persian. Not that it matters. I can picture you going around speaking of such languages as Hayeren, Italiano, Espanol, and so on. Totally ;)

that's just the name I grew up with: we had a guy who owned a grocery across the street who was from Iran. he insisted on calling it Farsi, so it kinda stuck. helps that in Arabic, "Persian" is called "Farisi" or "Farsi". so there

though, as you may note, I do use "Persian" as well. I don't really care. and no, I don't call Armenian that, or Italian, or Spanish. sorry to disappoint

**rickinator9** · 01-30-2012, 22:48

Where are you from then?

**stratigos vasilios** · 01-31-2012, 01:32

Originally Posted by rickinator9

Where are you from then?

"Who cares"

**athanaric** · 01-31-2012, 01:14

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

that's just the name I grew up with: we had a guy who owned a grocery across the street who was from Iran. he insisted on calling it Farsi, so it kinda stuck.

That's highly unusual for a Persian. Some won't mind, but insisting on "Farsi"...

helps that in Arabic, "Persian" is called "Farisi" or "Farsi". so there

But only because you guys don't have a P. Persians do, which is why it's weird when they emulate the Arabic pronunciation.

**Ibrahim** · 01-31-2012, 02:41

@ athanaric: I think it was for the same reason people on the eastern seaboard of the US emulated British accents in the 19th century: it was the fashionable thing.

and considering we only spoke in Arabic to each other, his insistence was normal (he spoke little English, and I don't know any Persian*)-it's also the correct Arabic word. I could go on to explain in detail what occurred for him to insist, but I can't be bothered, and I pretty much gave away the clue to it-the fact that we spoke in Arabic.

@ rickinator: I've been all sorts of places, but I spent a good deal of my childhood in Kuwait, where the guy lived- he had a family business in block three, in one of the side ways branching out of Al-khansa' street in Salmiyya- across the street from where we lived, about a kilometer from the Co-op store and a Mosque. I went there almost every day for groceries, and naturally got to know him.

*he was going to start teaching it to me, but my family had to move before lesson 1 could begin