Re: White Wolf Language-Butchery (was: Chinese/japanese Pronounciation)

On Wed, 1 May 2002 19:32:33 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> >Like, in the Assamite clanbook, it says that their Western name is
> >derived from Assam, a 'European mis-hearing or mispronounciation'
> of
> >their founder's name, Haqim.  Now, whether "Haqim" is supposed to
> >represent /Ha:kim/ or /Haki:m/ or something with a /q/ or who knows
> what
> >is one question, but i find it hard that anyone could mistake
> "Haqim" for
> >"Assam"
>  Truly.  Perhaps a mis-hearing of Hassan?  Assam itself is a region
> in the
> NE of India (a Tai language, Ahom, is/was spoken there IIRC..)
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You'd think so (that would make sense!), but it actually said that it was
Haqim ~ Assam.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "the world is a cucumber."
     ~ arabic saying?