Literacy level in LA
I just came across an article about Googoosh's recent concert in Los Angeles, and thought this photo is real fun :-)
As I saw in Hoder's site,Iranian's even in LA seem not to know how to write WELCOME BACK!!!
(at September 24, 2005 07:21 PM)
LA is not oxford guys :) here i see many people who have been in this city for 20 years and still can't even speak proper english!!!
and i guess bbc folks have taken and published this photo to make a point :)
(at September 25, 2005 02:21 AM)
LOL I didn't expect anything else :)
(at September 25, 2005 02:30 PM)
Wellcome (okay then come) or Wel come ("not English" + come) are well known and very popular forms of this English equivalent of Iranian or better to say Eastern hospitality across Iran's Sandewichiz (take aways) and even very posh restaurants, one even sees similar wrong spellings on the coaches and Truck which I'm sure you are all aware of (BUTIFUL BUS etc.)
One thing really worthg thinking about though is the fact that while very posh restuarant owners in Iran spend thousand and thousand of tomans making these signs (not always) without bothering to check the right spelling, thousand and thousand of Iranians go "oon vare ab" (across the atlantic) without bothering to check the right spelling :)
(As the big mouth linguist of the community I just had to respond to this)
(at September 25, 2005 03:50 PM)
Agree with Saman.
The lower the 'level of literacy' (as said in the title), the lower your attention to intellectual matters.
For a posh-looking restuarant in Tehran or a creepy Kababi in LA, the last thing to think about is spelling, especially in English.
(at September 27, 2005 10:25 AM)
You guys are all right, but we must also mention that according to US statistics Iranians are the most educated immigrants in the USA. Many of them having Masters degrees.
(at September 28, 2005 11:01 AM)
Sorry to interrupt guys.
Yes Unity they are amongst the most educated 'immigrants', comparing to whom? mexicans, arabs, dominicans, chinese, eastern europeans...
Not a big deal, really. how 'many' of them have masters degrees?
I think this photo from BBC is very expressive.
(at September 28, 2005 05:58 PM)
this is so shameful that Iranians make fun of each other... shame on us
(at October 7, 2005 09:28 AM)
wow what a nice spelling, I love it.
Winston are you happy now?
(at October 10, 2005 07:33 PM)
I've noticed a space between WELL and COME. Is it possible that the guy who wrote it was trying to say something else?
But then again, I don't know what he was trying to say!
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