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PSA on pinglish/ finglish (transliteration/ latinicization of Persian)

I personally prefer that we use Persian text to write Persian, but I won't dictate what others should do, and I would certainly prefer someone who doesn't read the Perso-Arabic script to write transliterated Persian than no Persian at all. But there needs to be some standards.

I recently read this comment:

Barichi tooye farsi harf mizani? Ingelesi begoo ke hameh fekrhamoon ra bedoonan, man Irani hastam, barey hichchi ham avasesh nemikonam va nemizaram kesi alaki Irani-budan ra biareh paeen.

I don't even care about the text of the comment. The horrendous pinglesh is what bothers me.

Here it is in good pinglish:

Barichi barayeh chi tooye tuyeh (beh) farsi harf mizani? Ingelesi begoo begu ke keh hameh fekrhamoon fekrhamun ra bedoonan bedunan, man Irani hastam, barey barayeh hichchi ham avasesh avazesh nemikonam va nemizaram kesi alaki Irani-budan ra biareh paeen payin.

As a general rule, if you see yourself using two consecutive letters, stop.

Posted Feb 22, 2016, 4:46 AM UTC · edited

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