djinnitaur
05-21-2016, 12:23 AM
Well, that should get y'all's attention ;)
I found a site recently written by an Iranian journalist where he gave some good translations of Jeannie's Persian utterances in the pilot episode. The title here, for example, is what she said upon her release, proper spellings and all.
He doesn't detail that little song she sings, about her beloved (habibi means 'beloved') but does provide some great information on how Persian was the proper language for Barbara to speak and not Arabic as was so widely used in the 60s, however correctly or not (usually not.)
Anyway, have a look, and bookmark it. Maybe someone will write to him and see if he can translate her song :)
(Hopefully his contact info isn't out of date.)
I Dream of (A Persian) Jeannie (http://www.payvand.com/news/08/aug/1287.html)
By Darius Kadivar
I found a site recently written by an Iranian journalist where he gave some good translations of Jeannie's Persian utterances in the pilot episode. The title here, for example, is what she said upon her release, proper spellings and all.
He doesn't detail that little song she sings, about her beloved (habibi means 'beloved') but does provide some great information on how Persian was the proper language for Barbara to speak and not Arabic as was so widely used in the 60s, however correctly or not (usually not.)
Anyway, have a look, and bookmark it. Maybe someone will write to him and see if he can translate her song :)
(Hopefully his contact info isn't out of date.)
I Dream of (A Persian) Jeannie (http://www.payvand.com/news/08/aug/1287.html)
By Darius Kadivar