{"id":115,"date":"2015-09-05T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T08:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/?p=115"},"modified":"2015-09-02T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T08:49:27","slug":"what-the-word-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/2015\/09\/05\/what-the-word-really-is\/","title":{"rendered":"What the word really is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"en-US\">This is a quirky little post based on a half-formed idea. I hope that it serves as an encouragement for people to learn to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Several months ago IAM switched from the old Glassman alphabet to the International Phonetic Alphabet. I fully expected some grumbling, and for people to struggle with the funny new letters (\u0283, \u0263, \u0292, etc.). What was more surprising is that some people don&#8217;t want to write [t\u0283\u028c] for &#8216;well&#8217; because it&#8217;s <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>really<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> \u201cchA.\u201d That is, the Glassman way of writing the word is somehow, for that person, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"><i>what the word really is<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"en-US\">I suspect that this has something to do with being a visual learner\u201490% of us are visual learners\u2014and something to do with being literate people. Even if we don&#8217;t read and write Dari, we still cling to the visual representation of the word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Wouldn&#8217;t it be wonderful if the written form of Dari words could have that special place in our minds? Then the \u201creal\u201d form of the word would be <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span lang=\"fa-IR\">\u0686\u0627\u0647<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. Sure, there&#8217;s a silent <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span lang=\"fa-IR\">\u0647 <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">at the end of that word, but a literate Afghan is no more inclined to leave it off than you would be to write \u201cbom\u201d instead of \u201cbomb.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\">So let this be an encouragement, or an exhortation, or whatever, to get into the written language. Part of the goal is cultural learning is to view the culture from a insider&#8217;s perspective; let&#8217;s make the same effort with the language!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quirky little post based on a half-formed idea. I hope that it serves as an encouragement for people to learn to read. Several months ago IAM switched from the old Glassman alphabet to the International Phonetic Alphabet. I fully expected some grumbling, and for people to struggle with the funny new letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-about-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam-afghanistan.org\/lcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}