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> I know the invitations were sincere because I was being accompanied by Iranian acquaintances most of the time, doing the translating This made me wonder what
by motoboi 6y ago
> I know the invitations were sincere because I was being accompanied by Iranian acquaintances most of the time, doing the translating
This made me wonder what taarof prescribes about translating taarof prescribed offers.
- EB-Barrington 6y agoWhen in Iran, I will often need to, discretely, in English, whisper to a local Iranian friend "is this tarof?". What hasn't been mentioned so far - even local Iranians are not always 100% certain if a situation is involving tarof or not.
- kweks 6y agoThe key phrase being: taroof na konid (let's not do taroof).. But even that can make the other party think you're levelling up the 'taroof'..