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Re: picnic

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, September 15, 2000, 2:45
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:24:28 -0400 Nik <fortytwo@...> writes:
> Steg Belsky wrote: > > was it Lebanese?
> My neighbor who was Lebanese told me that /nik/ means "to have sex". > He > was joking about that because of the similarity of that to my name, > /nIk/, when he was showing me how to write my name in Arabic. :-) > -- > AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor
- Well, i only got up to about the 3rd or 4th lesson in the Teach Yourself Arabic book a few years ago, but i'd assume that your name would be spelled just Nun-Kaf, without a Yaa in the middle, while "neek" would have a Yaa in the middle. -Stephen (Steg) "mai hhazit?!"