XPost: uk.politics.misc, soc.culture.palestine, soc.culture.iranian   
   XPost: soc.culture.israel   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article , FACE  writes   
      
   >On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:13:49 +0100, in uk.politics.misc hummingbird   
   > scrivened:   
   >   
   >>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:46:06 -0400 FACE   
   >>   
   >>appeared and wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:41:38 +0200, in uk.politics.misc abelard   
   >>> scrivened:   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>I have looked only lightly at this thread and it is much ado about nothing.   
   >>>   
   >>>The Persians speak Farsi.  There is not as much word-to-word translation   
   >>>between Farsi and English as between English and the other romance   
   >>>languages. Certainly less in nuance.   
   >>   
   >>Rubbish. There is very little in any language which cannot be   
   >>translated into English and retain the meaning.   
   >>   
   >>>You are correct, Abelard, in that the essence of the meaning of the two   
   >>>translations presented here are the same.   
   >>   
   >>Utter nonsense.   
   >>You obviously don't understand the English language.   
   >   
   >Oh my, the conspiracy nut is upset at me, whatever shall I do.   
      
   Well, your cackhanded attempt to refer to linguistics, as if you had the   
   slightest clue what you were talking about, has already left you flat on   
   your face. So what do you want to do?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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