On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 13:21:29 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In a message dated 1/24/02 11:27:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> << -Stephen (Steg)
> "SabaaH alxayr! SabaaH alnuur!
> kayf alHaal? bixayr, alHamdu lilaah.
> wa'usratuka? alHamdu lilaah.
> wa3amluka? alHamdu lilaah..." >>
> Beg pardon? Even Babelfish had no idea what that was :)
> Jon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Oh, sorry...
Since the listserv is being controlled by Israeli-vs.-Palestinian
politics, i decided to use as a sig an attempted reconstruction of one of
the corny videos we saw in the Introductory Arabic class i took last
semester.
Translated, the above reads (idiomatically):
"good morning! good morning!
how're you doing? i'm good, thank god.
and your family? thank god.
and your work? thank god..."
We saw a few videos when we were learning basic greetings. In one of
them, every other thing that someone said was "alHamdu lilaah", 'thank
God' (literally something like "the praise is God's"). In another one,
every other thing that someone said was "marHaban", 'welcome'. It was
very corny.
-Stephen (Steg)
"character is what you are in the dark."
~ dr. lizardo (john lithgow),
'the adventures of buckaroo banzai across the 8th dimension'
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