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Originally posted by promethius9594:
okay, having visited the blog now, i can see one thing... you're still wrong.
look up a google search on the word falloojeh, which appears in her blog several times. you'll find that the only results are clips or various forms of her blog.
now look up the word Fallujah. You will find all sorts of CNN articles, stories, independant writer pieces. why do i make the distinction? because anyone from iraq should be able to spell the name of a large city. please, i wouldnt spell the capital of california "sackramentoe." or i wouldnt call the big apple "nue yorck."
I think the reason you cling to this is that you so want it to be true. You know what, i can live with that.
I'm not saying its bad to be against the war, I'm saying you shouldnt pretend to be somethign you're not, just to make a point. if you believe in something, tell the truth, stand up for it, don't hide behind some fictitious blog.
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Dude. [img]graemlins/jawdrop.gif[/img]
Sorry but I'm quite stumped at this post. Erm, you do know that Arabic languages, when used in writing, are written with different characters than those of the Latin alphabet we use, right? And you know that the sounds of this Arabic script cannot be literally translated into Latin letters, resulting in different spellings that reflect attempts to convey the sound as closely as possible (e.g. Al Queda, Al Qu'ida etc etc)? Apparently not.
To put it in simple terms for you: there are no hard and fast rules for spelling Arabic names in our alphabet.
[ 04-21-2004, 03:58 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]