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May 25, 2008 17:22

"The philologists held that their language was preserved in its purest form in the desert. Moreover, the speech of the desert Arabs abounded in marvellous lexical rarities and both poets and lexicographers went out hunting for these. For instance [...] bahlasa means 'to arrive suddenly from another country without any luggage'.
Robert Irwin, ( Read more... )

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azdak May 26 2008, 04:37:15 UTC
Bwahahaha! That's wonderful. Can't help with the conjugation, alas.

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