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Hey, did this post appear garbled to any of you? I think it sent as Unicode, so my apologies for any confusion. ~DaW
----- Original Message -----
From: Danny Wier
To: tuning@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:07 AM
Subject: [tuning] Arabic rast vs. Turkish rast

This reminds me of what my ex-girlfriend (the one I almost married) told me about her childhood: she had a Turkish father and an Iranian mother. If they were going along in a car and somebody said راست râst, there was some confusion because the word means "right (hand)" in Farsi but "straight" in Turkish, or something like that. I'm not sure whether the word is of Persian or Arabic origin; I think it's the former.

(Linguistics happens to be my second love after music. I'm just a whole lot better at music, since the only language I can speak with a fair amount of fluency is Spanish.)