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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Terrorism explained
Having just had my first Arabic lesson, I can fully empathize with any radical Islamists out there. I've had to stare at the Arabic alphabet for just an hour and a half, rather than my entire life, and I'm already going nuts. It takes five weeks just to learn the characters, before we can start on slightly less elementary stuff such as grammar. Meanwhile, I can practice such Arabic essentials as the sound ayn, which, according to Wikipedia, is a 'laryngeal voiced fricative'. Right.
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