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Re: Abdul Alhazred: Let's retroconlang the Mad Arab!

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, May 19, 2006, 17:05
On 5/19/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> > > I'm not overly familiar with Arabic naming, but suspect this is > incorrectly > put together.... Abdul means 'slave of...' and is usually followed by a > word > _without_ the definite article al-
IIRC, that's because the -ul in Abdul is already the definite article. -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>