And other multilingual experiences of a traveler to Tashkent: Buyer Bedazzled, by Ronald Cluett. Via Kip, who links to it in the course of a long reminiscence of being an American kid in '70s Iran (in a town confusingly called Arak) that is well worth reading for its own sake.
Posted by languagehat at March 15, 2003 08:14 PMI did not know "Arak" was also spelled "Iraq." (I mean, if I had, I'd've made hay of it, to be sure.) Wow. Learn something new every day...
Posted by: --k. at March 16, 2003 07:18 PMSo, Kip, did you learn any Farsi while you were there? (And if so, do you remember it?)
Posted by: language hat at March 16, 2003 11:11 PMI've spent nearly an hour admiring the view from this lovely link ladder. Thank you.
Posted by: qB at March 17, 2003 08:37 AM