| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 4, 2004, 3:40 |
Steg Belsky scripsit:> In college, i remember seeing an anti-war protest where the protesters > were chanting slogans like "no war in EYE-RACK!". It took a Lot of > self-control to not go over and say "yo, if you care so much about > [3IrA:q], at least TRY to say their name properly!"I was debating a hawk a few months back on this very subject: he claimed that the pron. [ajr&k] was a deliberate insult/dehumanization, like "Jap" in WWII. This is some evidence against that. I say [Ir\Ak], which is my best approximation when speaking English. -- He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that jcowan@reutershealth.com hardly nobody could get there and most of http://www.reutershealth.com the leaders would stay home and let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, _Declaration of Independence_
| Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |