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melannen ([info]melannen) wrote,
@ 2009-06-21 01:27:00


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Things I have learned today:
Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei are not the same person.

I am ashamed of the fact that I didn't know this.

I would be more ashamed, if it weren't for the fact that when I tried to tell RL people how ashamed I was, none of them even had any idea who Ayatollah Khomeini was. D:


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[info]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.

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[info]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

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[info]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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