Guys:
The puns are good, but making jokes about any religion runs the risk of
offending some members of the group who may be followers.
It's best to make the jokes off list if you feel that they are important.
As to the derivation of Allah, it's the same root as one of the Hebrew words
for God, El
Since Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic are all very related languages, many of the
words are similar
Some idiosyncrasies:
The English word Shibboleth (a word used as a password which cannot be
pronounced by an ethnic group - letter "L" by Japanese for example)
literally means "wheat" in Hebrew. Hebrew includes the "sh" sound, while
the Arabic dialect of the area does not, so the Philistines could not
pronounce the word. Many words are the same in both languages when this
sound is swapped:
(ex: Peace: Shalom, Salaam, Five: Khamesh, Khamsah - BTW, the guttural Kh
is a shibboleth sound in English)
Arabic does not include the P, so the sound is frequently substituted to a B
(Panias to Banias)
The B and V sounds are frequently inverted for words in both (Dog: kelev,
kalb), also in Spanish (Arabic influence) like the pronunciation of the word
for 20 which can sound like bentae or ventae
Peace
Jeff
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From: stevenson_engineers [mailto:john@...]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:37 AM
To: mach1mach2cnc@...
Subject: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Frequently Asked Questions
--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., Art <fenerty@a...> wrote:
Who is Allah?
Allah means God. It is a personal name, which Allah calls Himself
in the
Koran. That is where we get it. It can also be found in an Aramaic
copy of
the Bible, and even Christian Arabs say Allah.
Who is Jesus
But can he stop you from getting Banned....Nope apparently not...
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
Infidel !!!!!!!!!!!
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