{"id":152,"date":"2004-07-07T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2004-07-07T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T21:08:06","slug":"the-nyt-is-running-a-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/the-nyt-is-running-a-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYT is running a correction!"},"content":{"rendered":"

From “David Corcoran”
\nSubject Re: Fwd: Persians are not Arabs – need correction
\nDate Wed, July 7, 2004 1:27 pm
\nTo “Cyrus J. Farivar” <\/p>\n

Persian it is. The correction will say his POETRY is in Persian,
\nleaving the other works aside.<\/p>\n

Thanks again for your help and good humor.<\/p>\n

David<\/p>\n

>Heh. You’re opening a can of worms with that. If you ask me, I’d say
\n>either one is fine — but probably Persian is the safest.
\n>
\n>You might want to acknowledge that Khayyam did write in both
\n>languages, Persian and Arabic — I was assuming that the reporter
\n>meant his poetry (Rubiyyat), which was in Persian, and not his
\n>scientific\/mathematic works, which were in Arabic.
\n>
\n>I appreciate the prompt reply — and I do know how easy it is to
\n>make mistakes like this. I’m a fellow journalist too.
\n>
\n>-C
\n>
\n>On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, David Corcoran wrote:
\n>
\n>>Thanks again for your letter. We received many like it.
\n>>
\n>>We will publish a correction, for which I need to ask your expert
\n>>advice: Is it proper to call Omar Khayyam’s language Persian, Farsi
\n>>or both?
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>>>
\n>>>>To the Editor of the Science Times and Ms. Margaret Wertheim:
\n>>>>
\n>>>>I wanted to write you to tell you that I very much enjoyed your
\n>>>>July 6 article “Virtual Camp Trains Soldiers in Arabic, and More.”
\n>>>>
\n>>>>However, I found a glaring error in the 10th paragraph, where you
\n>>>>write: “No one is going to be able to read Omar Khayyam after
\n>>>>this training…” implying that Khayyam wrote in Arabic. In fact,
\n>>>>Khayyam was Persian and remains one of the greatest Persian
\n>>>>writers in history.
\n>>>>
\n>>>>While the Persian language does use the Arabic alphabet, the two
\n>>>>languages are no more similar than English and French, languages
\n>>>>that also share an alphabet.
\n>>>>
\n>>>>Therefore, someone learning Arabic would not be very likely to
\n>>>>understand the works of Omar Khayyam.
\n>>>>
\n>>>>I humbly request a correction at your earliest convenience.
\n>>>>
\n>>>>-Cyrus J. Farivar
\n>>>>Berkeley, CA
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>……………………………….
\n>>
\n>>
\n>>David Corcoran
\n>>Asst Science Editor
\n>>The New York Times
\n>>229 West 43rd Street
\n>>New York, NY 10036
\n>>
\n>>(212) 556-4501
\n>>fax (212) 556-7306<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From “David Corcoran” Subject Re: Fwd: Persians are not Arabs – need correction Date Wed, July 7, 2004 1:27 pm To “Cyrus J. Farivar” Persian it is. The correction will say his POETRY is in Persian, leaving the other works aside. Thanks again for your help and good humor. David >Heh. You’re opening a can of worms with that. If you ask me, I’d say >either one is fine — but probably Persian is the safest. > >You might want…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-iran","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-2s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}