Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:
> --- Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>
> > > Actually, would you use the Swedish definite
> > > ending in an
> > > English/French/German/Meghean/... context?
> >
> > "Elves of the Chamant" feels about as sensible
> > as "muslims of the Al-Andalus" -
> > I do hope no-one would say that!
>
> Excepto en español, decimos "Los musulmanes del
> Alandalus"!
The Spaniards always had this trouble with the Arabic article, didn't they?
But I was specifically talking about English.
Andreas