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	ashenmote 2009-06-21 07:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh my. I guess I was saved from that moment of shame by all the German newscasters in the past who always went out of their way to over-pronounce the 'Kha-' in Khamenei to make the distinction clear. (Reply to this)(Thread)

melannen
2009-06-21 12:56 pm UTC (link)

I'm so used to American newscasters being useless with anything that isn't English that I just assumed variations in pronunciation and transliteration were people not bothering to get it right.

I didn't realize they were different until I read a blog article that was comparing the two of them. And even then I spent the first three paragraphs going "Why are they randomly switching between two different transliterations in the same article?"

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	(Anonymous) 2009-06-21 11:20 am UTC (link)
	D: That's why the pronunciation sounds off to me. . . . Maybe I should do a modicum of research today. --siegeofangels (Reply to this)(Thread)

melannen
2009-06-21 01:02 pm UTC (link)

I spent last night reading a fair portion of Wikipedia's Politics and Government of Iran series, and getting more and more impressed. If you're willing to accept that it's possibly for a theocracy to also be a functioning democracy, it's actually a pretty interesting system, with lots of built-in checks and balances, that has functioned fairly well within parameters until now - as evidenced by the peoples' belief in the power of the vote. I hope they manage to throw out the corrupt bastards and the instrumentality of repression without having to throw out the whole democratic framework.

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