tomjez wrote:my teacher told me farsi is now nearly 80% arabic,
Bullshit! It looks like Turks saying that Kurdish is just a weird dialect of turkish. Farsi is much different and much more beautiful than arabic...
Her Teacher is pretty RIGHT ! the words that farsi speakers use are at least 70% arabic. 15% are common with kurdish , and just 15% are pure persian words.
so if you know arabic, you can "READ" farsi text too, (but you may found it difficault when they speak it , because they read arabic words with Persian Accent) actualy the reason that tom thinks it is more beautifull is they read the arabic words with a softer tone . [a girlish tone]
there is a joke , one day that iranian shah who had come back from visiting that racist monster (ataturk) found it intresting to ban using arabic words and JUST using pure persian words in his office ,so they put this sign in the shah's office
"estemale kalamate arabi
dar in makan akidan mamno"
means (using arabic words in this place is forbiden)
the funny part is , in that sentnce just "dar in" are farsi words all other words are 100% arabic.
so even the Signture that orders not using arabic words was in arabic.