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2007-03-26 Arabia

French student killed in rebel attack in northern Yemen

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Posted by Steve 2007-03-26 11:17|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I was under the impression that Yemini Arabic is more pure than Saudi? So that would be a good place to polish one's command of the language -- except for it being in Yemen, of course.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-26 11:29|| 2007-03-26 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 And our "Frenchman's" name? Jean? Jacques? Jean-Jacques?

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-26 13:22|| 2007-03-26 13:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Rouge en rouge.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-26 13:54|| 2007-03-26 13:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Should be "rouge sur rouge", but for once I think I'd agree on that one (cf. tu's comment).
Btw, only use of "rouge sur rouge" I'm aware of in french language concerns alcohol consumption and likehood of vomiting after intoxicating oneself with wine.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-03-26 14:30|| 2007-03-26 14:30|| Front Page Top

#5
I was under the impression that Yemini Arabic is more pure than Saudi?

Perhaps, but that is not the reason Jiahdists would go to Yemen. From the analogy with the Spanish spoken by Sefardis and from Qubecois French (ie communities isolted from main linguistic body) Yemeni Arabic is probably archaic, ie closer to the language spoken by Mahomet and given his idolatric cult for Mahomet your average jiahdist who already tries to dress like him, uses khol to protect his eyes (like Mahomet did against desert sun) even when living in Sweden) you ca bet he will also want to speak like Mahomet.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-03-26 16:41|| 2007-03-26 16:41|| Front Page Top

#6 "rouge sur rouge" I'm aware of in french language concerns alcohol consumption and likehood of vomiting after intoxicating oneself with wine.

So I can like say to the waiter, "Hey mac, thisn fish-likey thing ain't gonna gimme the rouge sur rouge is it?" and sound like an in the know world-traveler?

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-03-26 17:27|| 2007-03-26 17:27|| Front Page Top

#7 "I was under the impression that Yemini Arabic is more pure than Saudi? So that would be a good place to polish one's command of the language -- except for it being in Yemen, of course"

If one actually wanted to use the language to, ya know, communicate in modern times, youd go to Cairo, IIUC, since Cairo is the communications, film, radio, etc center of the arabw world, and so cairo dialect is more widely understood than most.

Now if youre trying to get back to the 7th century .....

Posted by liberalhawk 2007-03-26 17:45|| 2007-03-26 17:45|| Front Page Top

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