04-27-2008, 11:38 AM
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Re: Giving the Headscarf a Makeover in Germany
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Originally Posted by LEGALEAGLE
Of course your comment makes the following assumptions
1. That the English language is sufficient. If that was the case then English wouldn't have absorbed so many words from other languages.
2. That what *you* mean by which I mean yourself and a few others is the same as the rest of us when you want us to use 'English' words.
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For example.. There is no real equivalent to the word 'karma' in the english language. Therefore the hindi/sanskrit/hindu foreign word has now been incorporated into english. Shakespeare himself simply "made up" many of the words in common usage today...yes MADE THEM UP. Not twisted certain ones to make new meanings (which he also did) but made them up out of thin air.
It's not a big deal displaced, it happens all the time and it's called CULTURAL DIFFUSION. I think you are being a tad ethnocentric and silly.
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Originally Posted by Jaysh
It simply means that your mother's uterus happened to be in Saudi Arabia when you were born.
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