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<comments removed> If you have questions or comments for this proposal, please use 'create new discussion' below. Thanks. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 18 at 15:54

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added by Caleb Aug 20 '11 at 16:44

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added by narengi Aug 10 '12 at 13:43

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added by saeedn Aug 11 '12 at 9:16

Very good question, as the answer is not very straightforward, and cannot be found merely by a simple google search. – narengi Aug 13 '12 at 13:29

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added by Caleb Aug 20 '11 at 16:41

This hardly fits the "finer points" suggestion in the proposal description, but are cruder questions about the language in general really going to be off topic? Suggesting as on-topic just to see how it flies. – Caleb Aug 20 '11 at 16:47

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added by hippietrail Nov 14 '11 at 17:18

It's an interesting question but Is it on-topic? – Gigili Jan 24 '12 at 10:00

Well it's definitely more on-topic than asking whether Dari and Pashto speakers can understand each other (-: – hippietrail Jan 24 '12 at 10:17

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added by PHPst Apr 25 '12 at 13:03

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added by idober Apr 29 '12 at 21:00

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added by Simon Aronsson Jun 28 '12 at 7:45

ممنونم از زحمت شما , ممنونم از لطفی که کردید , ممنونم , متشکرم – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Hamed Momeni Jun 28 '12 at 20:17

in speaking yes and in writing no. In speaking there is no boundary to change the order of sentences until they understand your sentence meaning. For example: the sentence: " Let's go together" can be say like these: "بیا با هم بریم" , "بیا بریم با هم" , "با هم بیا بریم" and in poetries almost there is no rule and it can be changed depend on the poet creativity – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by narengi Aug 10 '12 at 12:25

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added by Caleb Aug 20 '11 at 16:47

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added by Gigili Jan 26 '12 at 13:53

صندوق or صندوق پستی – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Nate Apr 20 '12 at 10:38

When the word has two or more meaning depends on different usage of vowels indicator. But mostly it can be guessed from the context of the sentence or paragraph and there is no need to use indicators. Mostly we use indicators in short literary sentences or phrases or poem of course which the vowels can change their meanings. – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Nate Apr 20 '12 at 10:45

میهمانی is more literal than مهمانی. In speaking we almost use مهمانی – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by PHPst May 21 '12 at 14:04

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added by Hamed Momeni Jun 29 '12 at 6:09

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added by Manoochehr Dec 9 '12 at 6:41

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added by Nate Apr 20 '12 at 10:42

از ملاقات با شما خوشحالم – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Meysam Dec 16 '12 at 11:29

It's some kind of kidding or scoffing maybe in anger situation depends on the circumstance. – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Nate Apr 20 '12 at 10:35

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added by PHPst Apr 25 '12 at 13:06

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added by Julien Ch. Aug 9 '12 at 11:42

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added by Persian Cat Mar 29 at 14:59

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added by Persian Cat Mar 29 at 15:12

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added by Meysam May 1 at 6:48

Both of the are very offensive and informal . خر کار means a person which is "hard work" but خر کاری means act of "Hard Working". – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Moctava Farzán May 26 '12 at 9:24

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added by Efazati May 27 '12 at 8:13

You can not. You should just memorize it or know root of the word. – Siamak.A.M 2 days ago

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added by Mohammad Yaseen Jun 30 '12 at 10:17

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added by Efazati Jul 4 '12 at 10:02

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added by Meysam Aug 20 '12 at 6:19

	Very good question. – narengi Aug 22 '12 at 11:08
	I have heard that in some cities like Kermanshah, the letter "و" in "توانستن" is silent as well. – Meysam Sep 4 '12 at 6:50
	"taut" "taught" – CutieKrait Apr 12 at 14:54

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added by PHPst Aug 20 '12 at 12:08

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added by Arash Mousavi Sep 12 '12 at 5:11

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added by Manoochehr Dec 9 '12 at 6:26

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added by Amir Latifi Apr 9 '12 at 12:40

Seems like a bit of an unnecessary question since the stackexchange site will be one of these sites. – Simon Aronsson Jun 28 '12 at 8:25

And beside, Stackexchange is a Q&A website, meaning that you ask your question, and people with an idea of the answer posts their opinions. Therefore, it is not a "link pool" to other websites. – narengi Aug 22 '12 at 11:07

@narengi Amir ask a question, if you have idea about his question you must leave comment! @amir Latifi persian-language.org/learning-list.html – Arash Mousavi Sep 12 '12 at 5:14

@Arash: I doubt that you have read the FAQ section of area51. I refer you to this FAQ link. It says there, and I quote, "... by proposing hypothetical questions, and then voting whether or not they are good questions for the site. Questions can be upvoted if you think they'll be interesting, downvoted ..., and closed if you think they are a poor fit for the community". It means that here, the goal is not to answer the questions, but to vote whether there are good fits for the future website or not, and I posted mu opinion on Amir's question. – narengi Sep 13 '12 at 10:08

This site wouldn't be a learning center in the future. The goal and the target is to be a Q&A site. I suppose this question will be a question for too many learners. – Amir Latifi Sep 16 '12 at 9:27

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added by Nate, edited by hippietrail Apr 30 '12 at 6:39

It is an elementary question – PHPst Jul 29 '12 at 11:04

@Reza: Nevertheless, should be brought up on this forum, as there is no other place on internet ( or at least none that I know of) to ask such questions. – narengi Aug 22 '12 at 11:06

@narengi Such elementary question should be searched in books and language learning sites, there are a lot of such sites. – PHPst Aug 22 '12 at 14:31

@Reza I disagree. All sort of questions should be welcome here. – Meysam Oct 12 '12 at 17:20

@Meysam It's a principal in all SE sites, – PHPst Oct 12 '12 at 19:50