I really am becoming irate with “Farsi.” Please, correct me if I am mistaken, but the language is called Persian, in English. My mother was on a bus in France recently and as she began to chat with two Georgian women sitting nearby, was corrected and told that it was “not Persian, it’s Farsi.” I imagine they looked like two washer-women, they usually do in these unfortunate little countries. Since when have Georgians become English teachers? And who decided to start the Farsi – provoking a linguistic plague that has evidently reached Georgia? I suspect it was some supersized US immigration officer or equal-opportunities registrar eager to show cultural sensitivity or some such bollocks.
We should at least be a little concerned about “Farsi,” the way we are with Gulf-Persian Gulf. It is bad enough that we have become a shitty little republic like our neighbours – let’s try and keep a little linguistic dignity for now.
