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    Quote Originally Posted by Ibrahim View Post
    yes and no- yes, I can't understnd a word out of anyone west of Benghazi (and vice versa). and between the nile and Benghazi, its kinda hard to understand. Maltese is in fact easier to understand than western arabic dialects. but no, its not because of french; my dialect has many french words, as does Algerian (grafe/grafa, salon, telefon, tilfesion, taxi, beskalet*, balkone , etc, all came from french. yes, even taxi). its actually because of berber influence. in berber languages, they tend to shorten, or drop some vowels in arabic, so ikbeer (big) in leventine is kbir in moroccan. the results can be a bit messy...


    as to my medieval origins: I believe them, but I lack the evidence to be certain. what they do say is however in line with the rest of my family history that I have evidence for: a religious/political role in Ottoman times, pro-caliphate/PLO pamphleteers (like my distant relative, abd al-qadeem zallum), the strong military ideals (chivalry, honor, etc), to today. but if I do have eivdence to confirm my family stories, I'm gonna be real impressed, for as you say, few people can trace their lineage 900 years back.

    *from french for bicycle.

    @ Hooahguy: woe, that's even stranger stuff.
    Ah.. Interesting, I thought the Algeria had more french loanwords due to being colonized by the french, turns out it wasn't like that.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur, king of the Britons View Post
    Ah.. Interesting, I thought the Algeria had more french loanwords due to being colonized by the french, turns out it wasn't like that.
    it does, but as I said, it itself is not a hinderence, as many of these words are also in levantine arabic. its mostly-as I said-down to pronunciation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ibrahim View Post
    it does, but as I said, it itself is not a hinderence, as many of these words are also in levantine arabic. its mostly-as I said-down to pronunciation.
    Alright.


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    among other things (many other things) my father says we are normans from 1066 and when the queen tries to knight him he will turn her down to show support for his irish brethern.

    yes....... hes joking we are Norman-French however.

    as well as Croatian, Greek, Chinese, Russian, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Lithuanian, "Russian Jewish" Canadian (falls with french really) i think thats everything........

    yeah americas a melting pot alrighty.

    i identify with only a few of those places though as other amounts are minuscule. It annoys me when so many americans wonder whether they were royalty in Europe. No dumb *** you would never have come to america if you were rich. The closest we are to famous is my fathers delusions and the likelihood of being a second son of some petty lord in Ireland (if my name is right)

    i am proud of my heritage.

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    Portsmouth, England 1567. That's the farthest I can trace my family back.

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    i have a friend who told me about an amazing dream he had; he was a transformer who transformed himself into a fridge.

    his relating of the crushing disappointment when he realised he couldn't move is one of the funniest things i have ever heard!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
    i have a friend who told me about an amazing dream he had; he was a transformer who transformed himself into a fridge.

    his relating of the crushing disappointment when he realised he couldn't move is one of the funniest things i have ever heard!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma_Cwh9VW1E

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    Portsmouth, England 1567. That's the farthest I can trace my family back.

    We were weavers apparntley
    1102 Yorkshire, a young burgher called John Smalley. The Doomsday book is an awesome artifact.
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    ok, things got really wierd. and I mean literally wierd, as in real life, while awake:

    I got a letter, probably a practical joke, with this written (complete with misspelles). it was under my door sill, and came with a lump of Chocolate:

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    Dear Ibraham!

    The Frut of My labor For you
    a HY/TV.
    DonT Feed The horses, they bite

    PS: Enjoy the Chocolote Its Swiss.

    I swear I didn't make this up: I have the piece of paper with me right now, and I'm on the verge of freaking out from the creepy contents, joke or not

    and on that page, it was postdated "MarcH 11th 2010". today is march 6th, 1 day away from my birthday.


    on the opposite side, it has a picture of a bunny-horse-guy thingy, saying "RiSe AND SHiNE IBE!, and near that thingy, there is a picture of a cresent moon with a guy holding a fishing line, pulling up a fish he somehow managed to pull up from Earth.

    lastly, on a corner of the darn paper, it has two columns: the first reads:

    FRESH
    FISH!
    UNO(?)
    Vo

    the second? it reads this:

    EGGS
    ToaST
    Tea
    Last edited by Ibrahim; 03-07-2010 at 01:08.
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