[thechat] Id

Syed Zeeshan Haider szh at softhome.net
Sun Dec 8 02:02:01 CST 2002


From: "Jonathon Isaac Swiderski"
To: <thechat at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: December 08, 2002, Sunday 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [thechat] Id


> As with any transliteration, there are undoubtably many different ways to
> spell it in the Roman alphabet.  Just ask an Asian to spell something from
> Japanese, Korean, or one of the Chinese languages in the Roman alphabet...

But the word Eid is not from any Far Eastern language. It is written in Arabic
style and it has almost been standardised as it widely used on multiple kinds of
media all over the world. Just check http://greetings.yahoo.com/ or any other
eGreeting service for instance.

Syed Zeeshan Haider.
http://syedzeeshanhaider.faithweb.com/




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