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Lieven L . Litaer ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer <[email protected]>
• Subject: other Possible Puns
• Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:32:30 +0200
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Greetings

Maybe this is a pun, or maybe just a coincidence. Anyway, I have to tell you that:

Perhaps some people have read that I've travelled the Sahara with university last month. I've had 
some contact with the arabic language and discovered something interesting: 
There are two ways of writing, 
The standard, usual way, just all the letters in a row as we know it. In the other system which is 
used only in religious context, one can also make some kind of drawings using the letters, i.e. they 
are stretched and squeezed just like one needs them. (This works because they are just lines and 
dots anyway)
Now I've seen a sentence "in the name of allah" (bIsm 'alah 'al raHman al raHim) in the shape of a 
bird. The letter that was used for the eye is the letter {m}, because it looks like an eye, close to this: 
-o-

The name of that letter in arabic is *mIym*
The Klingon word for "eye" is {mIn}.

Intended pun or not - it's a nice story.

And did I tell you that the arabic word for {wa'} is "wahid"? That's just a coincidence too I guess 
:-)


Quvar.

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