Re: racist vs racialist?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 16, 2002, 10:16 |
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At 21:41 10.12.2002 +1100, Tristan wrote:
> Another spelling is <Moslem>. I think the reason
>here is because Arabic only phonemically has /i/ and /u/, but
>phonetically has [e] and [o] as conditional realisations of them.
IMHO {Moslem} is probably based on the Persian pronunciation of the word.
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)>
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