A new film is crowned "Best Comic Book Movie."
Brothers and sisters, lend me your eyes so I may share with you the tale of brave Leonidas I, King of Sparta, son of King Anaxandridas II, descendant of Heracles, who led 300 Spartan warriors against the seemingly unending forces of Emperor Xerxes of Persia at The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.…
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— go to most recent comments126 - Ronnie
Oh and another thing Alex, besides freedom of speech, you have freedom of carrying guns in your country!!!
127 - Candide
Ronnie, are you saying pirating cartoons is legal in your country?
The freedom to carry guns is to keep our government from being able to attack the citizens. In other countries the citizens are just piled in mass graves.
128 - Chimaera
I'm not sure that SuperSpartan's comments were entirely straight-faced, Ronnie (at least, I hope they are not), but I am frankly insulted that you assume that the only people that enjoy this film are people that spell the word honour H-O-N-O-R; as a proud British citizen (who, before you make any derogotory comments, is entirely opposed to a certain Tony Blair's foreign policy)I am not in any way influenced to 'get the raggheads' because of this fantastical interpretation of a historcal event, and really quite enjoyed it.
129 - SuperFly
This film is one of the most blatant war propaganda films I've ever seen. It is clearly a metaphor for the current war in Iraq. Let's see a noble band of "freedom fighters" who are taking on the evil persians ( ie iran/arabs) who are being undercut by dastardly politicians back home who refuse to send more troops. Open your eyes people. The irony is of course that the spartans in the movie are defending their homes against persian invaders as opposed to today where it is the persians who have had their lands invaded. The only positive thing to come out of this movie other than a number of unintentional laugh out loud lines is that it accurately depicts what happens when leaders forgo any modicum of diplomacy in favour of confrontaional rhetoric - lots of people die needlessly.
130 - samhoe
Guys, This is a great move and I saw it twice over! I then did some reading in the history books too. The film is very well made however the story is so twisted from the facts that this qualifies as a "propanganda film" made by the west. Interestingly I also came to know that the so called "West's Charter of Human Rights" is just a modified form of the original charted of human rights "stolen" from Persia from the time of Cyrus the great from about 2500 years ago.
131 - jason
samhoe, you got it right, persians have no clue what human right is even in the 21 century let alone 25,00 years ago, Greece was the birth of human right and democracy, persians were a bounch of barberains, persian never had philosofers, great thinkers, elits, they don't have any today as well, without democracy, you can't writhe " human right" charter, it's BS.
132 - jack
democracy and human rights go hand in hand, one must be a retarted to think persians were the first nation who wrote Human Rights charter.
let me tell you a fact about persians and iran.
in Iran's history,governing was importand not the rule of law, to have law, you need civil society, persian never had civil establisments, to govern you need force not law in a backward country like Iran. democracy and human right complete each other, in Iran and with persian, it wouldn had not been possible even in a million yeras. long live greece the heart of our freedom and democracy
133 - Alf
I'm Syrus the great moran, I killed my grandfather, married with my aunt, and finally my head got cut off by Tomurus Anna, the Queen of Masaget's in an attempt that I tried to bring their region under my will but her son got killed and in return she cut my head off, put my head in a wooden rim ful of blood and said, Syrus you couldn't get enough blood when you were live, now drink blood as much as you can......no you retards better belive that I was the finder of the charter of human rights
134 - Parastoo
I feel sorry to read some of the comments here. I feel regretful that in this modern era, people still speak this low level when they are asked to declare their ideas.
All they do is to write stupid comments about a culture the magnificence of which is not required to be proved by people’s sayings.
I do not understand why some one should try this hard to underestimate a culture. Maybe because it is so flourishing that they can not compete with or show weakness of, by logical means.
I saw the film. I found nothing outstanding about it. Only a review of a comic book which has been made very discriminatively.
135 - jessy
prasto, take your blindfold off, you talk about the magnificance of persian culture like you guys went ot Mars or something? what makes you feel you persains are so special? I mean come on, persian language is 70% arabic, you use arabic alphabet. your history and language is all lies and false.
Parasto, name a modern persian philosofer, name a modern persian elit, name modern persian great thinker, I dare you to call a modern persian scientist..
facts about stupid persians >> even persian carpets gets made in northern Iran, by Azeri populatin of iran, not stupid persians. parasto the era of lise are over. the more you try to convince people that you are this or that, the more people will find out you are in vain trying to prove something that has a totall false base.
136 - Eric
persains never had philosofers, great thinkers or elits, to me, one major reason persian language limitation, you might not know the fact that persain language just has 300 simple verbs where as English language has over 40.000 simple verbs.
now my Question????
anybody here think limited language contribute to limited minds like backwards persians?
137 - edmond
no wonder persians don't have any great thinkers, with such a limited vocabulary, what kind of manifesto an elit can have?
persians are all delusional, let them escape from the real world to their stupid poetic world, after all, when you're enjoyin your poetry, you don't have to think, thinking is a hard work. no wonder they don't have any philosofers, but the numbers of poets that they have out-numbers the number of the whole world intellectuls, stupid language can't reach the maturity to become the language of intellectuals, it stays where it's been for centuris, writing stupid, pointless...poetris....
138 - arash
have a look at this and you get the idea.
139 - Arash
guys Persian is not 70% Arabic otherwise I could speak Arabic and no we don't have only 300 verbs, don't be so stupid there is a website called wikipedia Use it!
search this keywords in wikipedia.org:
Anousheh_Ansari
List_of_Iranian_Americans
Category:Persian_mathematicians
Persian_philosophers
Darius_I_of_Persia
140 - katty
I think they meant persain language just has (( 300 simple verbs ) not 300 words or vocabulary. I agree with him/her, english language has over 40,000 simple verbs, arash there's a different between verbs and vocabulary, I have a friend who speaks 7 languages due to his job, I asked him and he told me the comment is right, persian language just has 300 SIMPLE VERBS and arabic and turkish language make up approx 80% of persian languae. my friend told me SIMPLE VERBS are the BACKBONE of a language, and sinec persian language lacks simple verbs, it's considerd a weak language.
141 - katty
since my friend speaks arabic as well, this is the sentence that he E-maild me >>> ((((( voroode afrade motafarreghe mamnoo ast. he says except "ast" all the words in this sentence are arabic. also can speak turkish, and he told me you can't actually eat you food without mentioning turkish words in persian language, words such as >>> (( ghashogh, Boshghab, livan, changal)) are all turkish words in persian language.
I love internet, it's so easy to get the needed info and get your questions answerd.
142 - katty
some more info from my friend....
he writes , in English we have simple verbs for working, ironing, resting...in english we say " I work. but in farsi or persian they don't have a simple verb for this, and a farsi speaking individual must use a two-part verb for this action, it becomes " man KAR MIKONAM. kar mikonam is not a simple verb. it's a two part verb, he says the problem lies right here, since they don't have simple verbs, they have to use " kardan" alot. kar kardan, esterahat kardan, otu kardan, kharab kardan, negah kardan, tamiz kardan and so on, in English, we have simple verbs for all the mentioned verbs
143 - christina
wait a second guys, this is intresting, so are you guys saying for every single simple verb in English, persains have a two-part verb? ofcours except those 300 simple verbs that their language has.....wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so how do they get to explain quantum physics or heavy duty intellectualism coming from the great writers or philosofers of the world? with this broken, incapable farsi or persian, how they get by in the world of science?
perhaps persian of farsi is just the language of poems, that's why persians take a great pleasure reading and memorizing poetries. poem takes away the complexity of the world surrounding them, and makes them enjoy their delusional, imaginary world.
144 - Parastoo
To Katty and those who would like to know more about Persian language:
Part One:
In English or some other languages, we have words which can be used both as verbs and nouns. Surprisingly, all of the words that Katty has suggested are of this type: work, rest, iron.
Your reasoning can be judged in this way: When words like “kar”, “esterahat” and “otoo” exist in a language, there is no difference whether we use them alone both as a noun and a verb, or we add to them a common verb like “kardan” in order to construct a two-part verb. (If your friend is going to say that the word "esterahat" is Arabic not Persian, let me add that instead of “esterahat kardan” we can use either of the Persian verbs “asoodan, or aramidan”!)
145 - Parastoo
Part Two
I love my beautiful and rich language, Farsi. And I get frustrated to see that some people content themselves with accepting ignorant people’s words. Thus, I spent some time to search in a Persian dictionary and gather only SOME verbs that start with the letter “B”. Of course, I’m not a linguist, and I don’t have time to search all the pages of the dictionary! It is upon you to judge whether Katty’s friend’s saying is true about Persian language or not. Here are the VERBS:
1.Baakhtan 2.baaraandan 3.bastan 4.bordan 5.baaridan 6.baazgashtan 7.baashidan 8.baftan 9.baahakidan 10.baayidan 11.bebsoodan 12.betaayidan 13.baayestan 14.bakhsaanidan 15.bakhshoodan 16.bakhshidan 17.bakhnoodan 18.bakhidan 19.baraazidan 20.barkhaastan 21.bardaashtan 22.bargardaandan 23.bargozidan 24.baazaamadan 25.baazaavardan 26.baazistadan 27.baazpardakhtan 28.baazkharidan 29.baazkhaandan 30.baazkhordan 31.baazdadan 32.baazdaashtan 33.baazrastan 34.baazsetadan 35.baazshodan 36.baazshenakhtan 37.baazkaavidan 38.baazkeshidan 39.baazgardandan 40.baazgereftan 41.baazgoftan 42.baazgereftan 43.baazmandan 44.baazheshtan 45.baazyaftan 46.baalaanidan 47.baraasoodan 48.baraashoftan 49.baroftaadan 50.barafraashtan 51.barafkandan 52.baraamadan 53.baraamikhtan 54.barandakhtan 55.barangikhtan 56.baraavardan 57.baraavikhtan 58.barjastan 59.barchidan 60.bardaashtan 61.bereshtan 62.barkeshidan 63.barkandan 64.bargardaandan 65.bargozidan 66.bargashtan 67.bazidan 68.besalanidan 69.basijidan 70.booyidan 71.bikhtan 72.paakidan …
I think the number 300 VERBs may have occurred to your friend only after watching the movie 300! Because no real reasoning seems to be behind it.
146 - henry
you got it right, it explains pretty much the love affair that persians have with poets and poertries, they use it as a escapegoat.
from now on, I won't belive any persian I won't belive their false history and anything to do with their history, language, cultue, hand-made craft such as " persian carpet" that now we know are made by Iranian azeris not persians.
this site was and is an eye-openner, thanks for all the info
147 - henry
parastoo, you can't escape from anything anymore, the era of lies are over, persian languae just has 300 simple verbs. and you just came up with 72 of them.
like I said, I won't trust any persian any more
148 - henry
If your language doesn't have a simple verb for simple and daily-used verbs such as " work, rest... , it doesn't take a rocket sceintis to realize that this language won't have any simple verbs for more sophisticated verbs, ]
no wonder your language is 70% arabic, you need those arabic vocabulary to fill that huge and gigantic gab due to it's aweful flaws
149 - henry
I have enough, no more lies
if any persian comes here saying the fact that persian language has 300 simple verb "" is not right"". I write some simple english verbs and ask them to come up with what they have in farsi, and aske somebody who knows farsi to let us know who is right and who is lying.
now parastoo you tell me, do you have a simple verb for this simple verbs in English
to cuase
to lie
to alienate
to discover
to learn
to teach
if you continue lying, I won't let you go
150 - Parastoo
Part Three (to Christina and Henry)
Christina , again surprisingly, in quantum physics which you mentioned, Iran has had a well-known scientist Professor Mahmoud Hesabi whom you can learn more about on the internet. Professor Hesabi was educated by the prominent physicist Albert Einstein.
By visiting any famous university in the US or Canada, like Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, Georgia Tech, UofT, Queens, UBC, Mc Master, etc you can easily find many Iranian students and professors. That’s the same if you search top professional positions. Go and see them yourselves, and decide whether Iranians are confined to their poets and run away from hard work, or they search science in all parts of the world!
Henry, you didn’t even notice that these are only some Persian verbs which start with the letter “B”!!!!!!! Please discuss with me, and satisfy people that there is some analysis behind your words.
151 - henry
answer the questions, what are the simple verbs in farsi for the simple verbs that I wrote above?
152 - henry
everybody as you see, parastoo couldn't come up with the right simple verbs in farsi for the simple English verbs that I mentioned about, I haven't got the whole day to waste my time with this person, see you all later
153 - Parastoo
I do not know the meaning of the word cuase, but here are the others:
to lie : aaramidan
to alienate : vagozardan
to discover : daryaftan
to learn : amookhtan (yad geretfan)
to teach : amookhtan (yad dadan)
(exactly like "to open" which is both used as transitive and intransitive)
154 - Parastoo
You behave childish, but I spent my time to answer you anyway. Check the words when you have time!
See you later!
155 - ali
hi my friends, salam parasto haalet khoobe? baba inja che khabare? lol
i'm iranina and we were playing footbal, somebody asked anybody here know farsi, i said i know, ok let me help if i can
henry is here with me,
to cause = sabab shodan , we have tow part verb fro this in farsi
to lie = dorough goftan, parasto says aramidan, but i have not heard anybody using it, it might a dead word, i don't know, again it's a tow part verb in farsi
to alienate = roy gardandan, bigane kardan . again it becomes a tow part verb in farsi, parasto says vagozardan, but vagozardan is like ( giving up). we can't use ' vagozardan' by itself, we have to say, vagozar kon.
to discover = kashf kardan, it's a tow part verb, parasto says 'daryaftan' but daryaftan is like understanding,
to learn = yad gereftan , it's a tow part verb in farsi
to teach = yad dadan, it's tow part verb in farsi
parasto and others thanks, har ja hasti khosh bash
156 - ali
sory one more things
also
to lie = deraz keshidan , parasto says aramidan, nobody says in farsi that word, it's laughable, we say, deraz bekesh not biyaram lol
157 - Parastoo
I have used a dictionary for it Ali. Just go to www.farsi123.com and see if I’m wrong. Come on! You say Henry is with you. What an unbiased referee!
“vagozardan” is 100% correct. You check it in your dictionary, don’t tell us your opinion.
It is true that people do not use “aramidan” in their daily language, but it is fairly used in writing. Does it mean that Persian language does not have this word!!! Oh my God!
Am I not right about “amookhtan”? What is “amoozesh o parvaresh” then? Is it an archaic word?
158 - Parastoo
1. I didn’t claim there is no parallel two-part verb for any one-word verb in Farsi! You have used two-part verbs instead of some existing one-word verbs!!! (For example “yaad gereftan” instead of “amookhtan”)
2. Also in English where we have:
To lie = to tell a lie
To discover = to learn about, to find out…
This time I have used Oxford dictionary. Non-Persians can check it too. What is proved by your words then? That English is not a flourishing language too?!!! Come on!
3. I said that I don’t believe that having many two-part verbs proves a language to be incapable, as many one-word verbs in English are used both as nouns and verbs. There is no difference to use a "noun/verb" word alone (like in English) or with some auxiliary verb (like in Farsi).
159 - ken
hey guys farsi is a tow-part verb language, here I've got some more
to live = zendegi kardan
to watch = tamasha kardan
to memorize = hefz kardan
to swim = shena kardan
everybody add some more please
what a pitty, farsi has just 300 simple verbs
well done english with over 40,000 simple verbs
160 - Parastoo
Today, I talked to a professor who has a PhD in literature. She said that the number of the simple verbs of a language is totally irrelative to its capability!
Although I showed that the statement “Persian language has only 300 simple verbs” is totally wrong, I add that linguists, not people like Katty’s friend, say that a huge number of simple verbs of a language is not a factor of its capability or success. On the contrary, she said that this characteristic even adds up to the complexity and difficulty of usage of that language. And languages which have the ability to create new nouns and verbs by applying already existing words and adding affixes to them are more qualified and capable of usage.
Unfortunately, our discussion yesterday was not scientific! Although, I emphasize that all the definitions that I wrote here yesterday, were taken from an English-Persian dictionary! People like Ali who deny the reality, should know that they must show document for what they say. Their personal idea does not prove anything.
161 - toby
everything is becoming crystal clear and I'm begining to see the pattern.languages like human socities,throughout history, time and times get tested and go through harsh times in order to become solid and strong.
If a language such as Persian Language sounds like baby-talk and one ought to use a whole bounch of KARDANs to make themselve understood, it just proves that it is not the language of secience, it's the language of confusion, this language is chaotic. sceince requries a solid and well-established language.
here comes the importance of Simple Verbs and their roles that they play in the world of languaes.
A solid and strong language needs an army of simple verbs, without them, the language will be reduced to just producing poems, where chaos rules.
not only that, having lots of Simple verbs in a language is another prove that the language is able to create simple verb from Noun and Adjectives and this is the most importand part of the language.
Parastoo, I'm sure you talked to an Iranian Profosser, Iran has lots educated people with lots of PhD degrees, no wonder your contry beats Japan, Germany, USA...in everything.
162 - ernesto
here I got more two-part verbs
to fly = parvaz kardan
to search = jostojoo kardan
to fix = dorost kardan
to hire = estekhdam kardan
to fire = ekhraj kardan
what a stupid language this farsi is,
I'm sure it has just 300 simple verbs
163 - wise man
Congrats!
All of you people who claim to be very sensitive about and skillful in science, finally got the point that parastoo was going to hide. That Persian language has only 300 simple verbs 71 of which start with "B"! You are the cleverest of any body on this earth I have ever met. Congrats!
Now, before you are going to inform me that the Persian empire has never existed, I will go to study history and literature in some OTHER SITE!!!
164 - veronica
way to go everybody,
now the whole world knows that incapable persian language is the weakest language of the world.
that for every single simple verb in English, there's a two-part verb in farsi or persian.
love you all, keep up the good job
like one of the users said in their comments,
**** The era of lies are over*****
165 - sandra
great job everybody, I just wannna bring your attention to the outcome and implications of speaking a stupid language such as persian in a backward and undevelope country like Iran.
frist off, I want everybody know that people like Parastoo breathe and live because Iran is a oil/gas-rich country, whitout oil/gas, persians are dead-meat.they don't produce anything value-worthy.89% of their economy is based on oil/gas.
secondly, everybody should know that even today in this modern era that we lucky people live, persians still don't have Profesional Jornalism, stupid persians language, have not allowed them to gain a " Cultural Critique".
this stupid language, don't let persian to grow up, act and behave with maturity.
I would say, stupid,incapable and backward persian language is mostly responsible to persians and farsi speaking world's backwardness, just pictur it, how are you supposed to digest the giant intellectuals of the 21st century with only 300 simple verbs?
Too many factors play in a language and nation's maturity, if persian language has not got to that degree of maturity, then lots of historical/cultural facts which we today know about persians must be untrue,
their history must be a totall lie,
their language must be a sub-language, not an independent language, maybe it's the 30th accent of arabic language since it uses approx 75% of arabic vocabulary.
these are great questions and concerns, it can be Univercity graduates theses.
long live logic.
166 - tin
I love this site, we should call this site persian stupidity exposed.
167 - Leonardo ITA
Farsi is an ancient language with a very complicated system of single verbs and double verbs, BUT it's also an elegant language and a beautiful one. Cause the ancient persian culture that created it was truly amazing. Have you ever seen a typical persian garden? It speaks directly to the soul with its beauty. And a culture that loves poetry so much isn't exactly backward.... That said, actual Persia (or Iran as is called now) is another matter. Theocracy and fanaticism have brought to its knees an once prosperous culture. Western people that appreciate Persia hoped in the reform of Khatami. Now we have Ahmadinejab.....Present day Persia is like one of the flowers so common in its gardens: closed and sleeping, waiting for a new wind of freedom to restore it to its old beauty. The old king wasn't exactly a saint, but compared to actual leaders......Whatever will be the result of the mounting culture clash between West and Jihadist Movement, I will always pray for a future where americans, europeans and persians can meet together and have a nice laugh. Cause we are all brothers under the same sky. Even if some criminals do their best to convince us otherwise.
May God grant us such a blessing. One day or another...
168 - russle
there's no such a thing as ancient persian culture.
you don't get it do you? it's all lies.
persian was the language of villages and vallies of Northern-khorasan, today afqanistan. 2000 years ago arabs invaded iran. this was a turning point in the history of persian language, because persian language adapted the needed vocabulary for its survival, 1000 later turks gaind power and iran was about to be rulled one more mellenia by strong turks.
During this era, Iranians would use arabic as the language of science, farsi as the language of poems, and turkish vas the language of sultan/kings and the the language of army and royal family.
you know nothing about iran's history but yet talk about persian language.
pleas first get to know iran's history.
persains are ancesterial worshipers. and persian language is Anti-modernism.
there's no such a thing as old persian language, all the engravings/inscriptions were written is sumerains/ akkadians languages and they had nothing to do with persians or farsi.
but we were and are told they blong to persians.
they might convincs few fools, but not poeple who do their own reaserch.
169 - liz
I really don't care if persian language is an ancient language. I don't live in the past, I'm not a dead-worshiper like persaisn, I belong to a nation that looks forward,invest on our present and future, I don't belong to a nation that are ancestral-worshipers like stupid persians.
if a languae only has 300 simple verbs, it can't do any good in the modern era. I can't belive English has over 40.000 simple verbs and stupid persian language only has 300 simple verbs
170 - El Bicho
It's funny to watch so many people knock the Persian language while they saying virtually nothing with all the English they write.
Feel free to return to your blathering.
171 - elena
some people here claim that persians language holds persians back,
they say
1-so far, persiasn language has not reach the level of " profesional journalism."
2- persians language just produce poems,where as modern societis reguire " cultural critique."
3-persian language with its 300 simple verbs, doesn't have the capacity to digest and absorb the intellectualism of 21st century.
I think they are right, you can't avoid thses 3 important points if you wannat enter 21st century.
172 - tommy
I think it's impossible for a language to reach profesionalism in Journalism if only or mostly it can produce is poem.
Pros is what's needed for a language to reach maturity, not Poem.
Pros let a language to explain itself through creating novels and stories, especialy long novels.
I have to say I'd agree with some people who say Persain language is Anti-Modernism, because the era of Poem is long gone,it's history, poem blongs to agricultural societies.
Modernism with its edgy and sharp criticism, needs Pros not Poems.
173 - tommy
Prose let us communicate, engage in an intellectual debate, break taboos and doubt, question what's been accepted, with prose and criticism, the conventional wisdom gets challenged and we humens evolve.
174 - rod
so who is stupid?
persians or persian language?
to me persian language is stupid, sooner or later persains have to deal with this problem.
you either deal with your problems, or you die in your undevelopment, backwardness and weakness.
so the time has arrived for persians to change or die.
175 - liza
Persain language has never been the language of Prose, it's always been the language of poems as one said in their comments even during over a mellenia of turks rulling Iran.
Persian is not a language, it's the 30 accent of arabic.
this language should have died by now, only one factor keeps this language from dying.
the tranlation idustry, the stories and novels gets translated into farsi and keeps this language artificially alive.