What is there, what is not

[A. Maberry]

On Sat, 25 May 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> WHAT IS THERE, WHAT IS NOT--Armenian for "whazzup?"  My tour guide told
the story/fiction of a computer that could answer any question--until the
Armenian approached with "What is there, what is not?" and crashed the thing.

Same meaning in Turkish, "Ne var, ne yok?" "What's there what's not there"
= roughly "Whazzup", "What's going on?"

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu