Various quiz questions

[stacybecks]

1,What is the longest B road in the uk?

2, In arabic, what doas May-fah-hem-tiksh mean?

3, In the wild west who or what was Bob waugh?

4, In greek what doe Den omilo tin aggliki mean?

5, In italian what does maiale e manzo mean?

Thanks

[~The One~]

for the second question:

Short answer: I havent understood you (man to woman)

Long answer. Ma ........sh is a negative like the French ne.....pas.

fahem is the root for understand. Arabic refers to verbs in the third person sing aorist. He understood.

I understood is fahemtu

You is tacked on the end (enclitic). The Arabic identifies gender, you (masculine) is ak,

you (leddeh) is -ik

fahemtik I understood you.

mafahemstiksh I havent understood you

Easy, isnt it? It probably makes you wanna yak in the latest al-jazeera video.

an alternative is mafahemtoosh kelamik

(I havent understood your speech)

Grammarians say, 'The Arabic verb expands in a way that is not intuitive to the European mind.'

 
 
Peter Pedant Fri 22/10/04