CNN Is Silly
CNN continues their coverage of Iran today.
The crowd chanted “Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein,” the first a reference to the revered Shiite imam and the second a reference to Moussavi. Then there were more chants of “Allah wa Akbar,” or God is great.
No. No I don’t think there were. Whoever wrote this would probably benefit from this – specifically point seven.
Arabic letter waw (و) is used as vâv for [v], because Arabic has no [v] but Persian has no [w]
You might say, “well of course they kept the [w] sound, this is takbir afterall!” Not quite. In prayer and other religious phrases the [v] will replace the [w]. Further, the Farsi-accented takbir is normally translated as “Allah-o akbar”. And finally, of course, “Allah wa akbar” pretty much makes no sense.
Perhaps too many of CNN’s staff were pulled for Obama’s Beer Summit.