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[grahamb]

Ure wellcome.

[Hod]

[grahamb]

Mother's day is nine months after father's day.

[TwinCentre]

Talking of Ramadan, when does it fall this year?

Oh, hope I don't have to go through another Ramadan, �100 pounds of alcohol stock ups lasted only 2 weeks if I remember correctly...

[Urban_Kitten]

Mid-September - I think @ the 12th.

[Africaexpert]

I suspected Hod was ignorant and closed-minded, now I am convinced of it.

[Hod]

Well, at least Hod's punctuation is good.

And I might as well also say... I admit I never liked Casa or Morocco, and that's why I am quite vocal about it. But what do others on here do to counter my outbursts? Do they prove me wrong with stories of fun, adventure and being at one with the locals, etc?

When someone criticises a country I think highly of, I never take it personally, but I can nearly always offer a few objective insights which anyone else could read to see there's always two sides.

So what do do the Morocco fan club do? Call Hod daft and closed minded (note the punctuation).

[Africaexpert]

And pretty darn petty to boot.

[Henry_Cowell]

Let's see now...

[Hod]

Petty, over poor punctuation?

You're probably right. My doctor can't even spell, and you should've see the grammar on a receipt some garage mechanic gave me last week, shocking.

Then again, what job do you do again, Africaexpert?

And if a student asks if it's closed-minded or closed minded, what would you say? (I'd like an answer to this, expert, because people like you are always right). Being petty hasn't done me any harm.

Oh and I never saw that Amok thing before. That word's about as Arabic as an orang utan.

[Africaexpert]

It's well known that amok comes from Arabic. I'm a CPA, Hod.

[Hod]

I tell you what, could you show us your sources of where "Amok" came from, please?

And, umm CPA? Accountant?

[Henry_Cowell]

[Africaexpert]

"Malay is a member of the MaIay-Polynesian family of languages Beginning in the 14th century, with the conversion of many Malays to Islam, a variation of the Arabic script known as Jawi was used for writing. In the 19th century the British constructed a Roman-based alphabet that is in general use today. It differs slightly from the one used in Indonesia, which was developed by the Dutch, but the resulting variations in spelling are in fact the only difference between the two languages. A few examples of these differences may be found in the article on Indonesian. Grammatical concepts in Malay differ radically from those in Western languages. Prefixes and suffixes as we use them are virtually absent, their functions being assumed by additional words. The plural of a noun is most commonly indicated by simply saying it twice, as in rumah-rumah in the passage below, which means "houses." After numbers, however, the noun reverts to the singular and an additional word is added, similar to the English construction "seven head of cattle." Malay has many of these "numerical coefficients"�one for people (orang�man), one for animals (ekor�tail), and others for flowers, jewels, threads, and even fishing nets. "Two cats" in Malay is dua ekor kuching ("two-tail-cat"), while "two children" is budak dua orang ("child-two-man").

Malay contains many words of Sanskrit and Arabic origin. English words of Malay origin include orangutan, gingham, sarong, bamboo, rattan, kapok, paddy, and amok. "

[Hod]

That'll be "Amok" comes from Malay then?

In Malaysia, a lot of Arabic script is used, e.g. on bank notes and some street signs. But as Africaexpert wrote, it's Jawi. If you read it out loud, it'd sound more like Malay.

I showed Jawi to some Moroccan students once, well one word "Bahasa" and they said it was unintelligible.

And yes, a lot of Arabic words are used in Malay but not "Amok".