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Saeed Malekpour: Prisoner of the day | Lawyer says death sentence suspended | Dec 03 |
Majid Tavakoli: Prisoner of the day | Iterview with mother | Dec 02 |
احسان نراقی: جامعه شناس و نویسنده ۱۳۰۵-۱۳۹۱ | Dec 02 | |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Prisoner of the day | 46 days on hunger strike | Dec 01 |
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Graffiti | In Barcelona | Nov 30 |
گوهر عشقی: مادر ستار بهشتی | Nov 30 | |
Abdollah Momeni: Prisoner of the day | Activist denied leave and family visits for 1.5 years | Nov 30 |
محمد کلالی: یکی از حمله کنندگان به سفارت ایران در برلین | Nov 29 | |
Habibollah Golparipour: Prisoner of the day | Kurdish Activist on Death Row | Nov 28 |
Good Friends
by VidaKashizadeh (not verified) on Tue Dec 02, 2008 07:15 AM PSTEven American English – as contrast to British English – cannot escape exceptions. I don’t suppose Americans pronounce ‘idiot’ sounding eyediot , do they?
However having watched this really sweet video of 2 very good and best friends has made me realize the following:
Although the word Eyeran does not sound nice to Iranian ears, it seems to sound more natural to non Persian speaking Americans.
An example would be ‘Irland’.
Iranians change the pronunciation of this word to ‘eerland’, which is the French pronunciation. Of course French language used to be the main European language taught in the schools of Iran until after the WWII. However Iranians (in Iran) still accept new European words - mainly technical words – into the Persian language in their French pronunciation only, not really due to their loyalty to French, but because the pronunciation is more acceptable for the Iranian ears.
On the other hand ‘eeron’ could indeed sound very wrong to American English speakers. Perhaps because of the prefix ‘ir’ that changes the meaning of a word to ‘not’, ‘non’ and ‘un’? But then the prefix ‘in’ has the same function.
But the difference is that ‘in’ also has a positive meaning when used by itself. So ‘ir’ has a negative connotation?
What is more interesting for me is that the loving friend says the word ‘psycho’.
It makes me wonder if she has any German ancestors. It doesn’t matter if she consciously speaks German or not. I mean genetic memory.
Irre (pronounced eere) in German means ‘deranged’ and Irrenhaus means lunatic asylum.
I hope this comment would help irate Iranians in USA to avoid irksome arguments with their neighbours. Alternatively look for a new spelling that fits better with Americanism in order to make the right pronunciation more acceptable with time.
Besides we still need a lot of running and it is of no use to say ‘I ran’ as if it was already over and done with. Why not change it to ‘I run’ or even better ‘We run’?
Well, pure chance that it sounds like another Persian word. But how far is chance a chance?
Emreeka!
by Jahanshah Javid on Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:41 PM PSTVery good point AnonymousMM.
AAMREECAA :)
by AnonymousMM (not verified) on Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:38 PM PSTIt's like an American getting all frustrated cause Iranians call America "Aamreecaa".
Get over it. Most Americans are comfortable with "Eye-ran" or "Ee-ran". But "Eeraan"...? No.
Eyeran
by Anonymous Eyeranian (not verified) on Mon Dec 01, 2008 06:31 PM PSTWhen a word begins with an "i" followed by a consonant and a vowel, the "i" is most often pronounced as "eye":
Ice = Eyece
Icon = Eyecon
Ideal = Eyedeal
Identify = Eyedentity
Identity = Eyedentity
Ideology = Eyedeology
Idol = Eyedol
Iron = Eyeron
Isolate = Eyesolate
Item = Eyetem
Ivory = Eyevory
When a word begins with an "i" followed by two consecutive consonants, the "i" is most often pronounced as "ee":
Ignite = eegnite
In most words begining with "ill", "in", "inn", "im", "imm", and "irr", the "i" is pronounced as "ee":
Illigal = eelligal
Immaculate = eemmaculate
Inside = eenside
There are many exceptions to these and many other pronounciation rules, but exceptional pronounciation rules are not usually adhered to by the masses.
Iran
by Alahazrat Hajagha on Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:09 PM PSTyep it is Iran and god bless you azizam for correcting people....
I agree
by KouroshS (not verified) on Mon Dec 01, 2008 09:43 AM PSTA friend always knows best. SHe is Psycho, No doubt.