SHRED
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Sun May-01-11 10:58 PM
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Can someone explain why the two names?
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The Velveteen Ocelot
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Sun May-01-11 10:59 PM
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1. Arabic doesn't transliterate into English very consistently. |
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So you will often get different spellings. I've seen Osama/Usama for years - it doesn't mean anything.
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Sun May-01-11 11:03 PM
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7. I noticed on FOX they go with Usama |
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My guess is to be different in an attempt to impress the mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers.
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Sun May-01-11 11:00 PM
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Sun May-01-11 11:01 PM
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If you notice everyone spells it differently.
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Sun May-01-11 11:01 PM
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6. They aren't "two different names". The name, being Arabic, has a spelling |
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IN ARABIC. There is no exact translation into the english alphabet.
Seriously? This is all you have to say??
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Sun May-01-11 11:03 PM
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8. Doesn't matter anymore. |
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Sun May-01-11 11:06 PM
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9. So is it a long O or not? |
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Edited on Sun May-01-11 11:10 PM by wuushew
phonetically isn't the O spelling more logical? It is either one or the other.
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Sun May-01-11 11:08 PM
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10. It's different ways of dealing with Arabic's emphatic consonants. |
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Edited on Sun May-01-11 11:10 PM by Odin2005
In Arabic I and U lower to E and O when around emphatic consonants, which are pronounced with the base of the tongue pulled back, some American English dialects do the same with R.
So Osama's name in a phonemic transcription would be "Us'ama Bin Lad'in.
Same with Koran versus Quran, or Mohammed vs. Muhammad.
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