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Re: taliboo

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 17:49
Fabian wrote:
> > it occurred to me in the shower this morning > > that languages in which <talib> means student > > might soon have a sort of taboo-replacement. > >Not really. > >The most important language in this group is Arabic. Many Arabs consider >the whole thing to be a conspiracy engineered by the Americans in order to >have an opportunity to play with military hardware. Crazy, but there you >go. > >Other languages which include that root include Maltese, possibly Hebrew, >and Pashtun. In most of these, the core meaning is beg/pray, and has >nothing to do with study.
Pashtun has this root? That is, not merely a number of Arab loanwords featuring it? Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com