Re: taliboo

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


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