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Originally Posted by rewboss  This is called the "slippery slope" argument, and such arguments are usually wrong. Just because some English words have found their way into Parsi doesn't mean that 95% of all Parsi words will disappear or be forgotten.
I do understand the concern -- I get annoyed with "Denglisch", which is when English words and phrases are used in German; but after 50 years of Denglisch, German is still 99.9% German. Denglisch is often used in marketing because advertisers think that Germans consider English to be "cool", but often the slogans they come up with are nonsense, bad English, or misunderstood by the general population. I dislike Denglisch not because it endangers German, but because marketing experts are too dazzled by its sheer coolness to realise that most ordinary Germans are actually put off by it. Some Germans use Denglisch to prove that they are broad-minded and tolerant of foreign cultures, when in fact all they prove is that they never paid attention to their English teachers at school. |
Let me tell you something.even now around 75%of words we use are arabic or have arabic roots.because for a long period of time people kept on using them and because now instead of makng new Parsi words,they teach arabic at schools here and and in arabic text books they encourage students to speak it!!!
one of our teachers said he had bought a German LEXICON in Iran and every once in a while he recieved mails containing new German words added to the language. while in Iran the newest LEXICON was written 50 years ago and it can answer only half of our today needs.
it's different in a developing country than in a developped country.if they feel something is in danger in Germany there are organizations that are responsible for that,aren't there? but not here.
if after 50 years of Denglish German is still 99.9%.Parsi is already only 25%!
i don't think i can describe the situation here very clearly,but it's not my saying,experts in Parsi have been alerting us how dangerous Finglish(Farsi and English)could be.it's not my attempt to save our language from foreign words,it's attempt of in the knows.there are seminars discussing the ways to solve the problem.