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Old 01-19-2008, 07:50 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bubble852003 View Post
Hello.
How would you write

The Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
- (William Ross Wallace)
in Persian?

And do you read from left to right or right to left?


Hello and welcome here,

Persian is read from right to left.

And here is the translation of the sentence (nice!):

دستی که گهواره را تکان میدهد، بر جهان حکومت میکند

I guess he means "Mother". Doesn't he?
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