[Ads-l] haboob

[Laurence Horn]

No alcohol.  Just good old-fashioned Amurrican booze.

LH

> On Jun 2, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at SIUE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> But how do they feel about alcohol?
> 
> Jim Parish
> 
> On 6/2/2016 12:23 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>> I guess they oppose the teaching of algebra...maybe calculus, too, since
>> its Latin...
>> 
>> DanG
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:57 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Today's Jerusalem Post
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jpost.com_Diaspora_Dust-2DStorm-2Dor-2DHaboob-2DTexans-2Dflip-2Dover-2Dweathermans-2Dchoice-2Dof-2Dterminology-2D455723&d=AwICaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=4quDedSPBHS25wVC8ec-SntlN0bDPB2iioRt6RmOnHE&s=8peuzkz4k6DX8XbWDalBNTQXruAnrkM2S_jOPHpbJxA&e= 
>>> <begin quote>
>>> Dust Storm, or 'Haboob?' - Texans flip over weatherman's choice of
>>> terminology
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> When a dust storm was referred to on Monday as "Haboob," locals of Lubbock
>>> Texas did not shy away from speaking up on the weather service's Facebook
>>> page in order to express disdain over the chosen word, of Arabic origin.
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> A third Texan took the opportunity to address the impending US election
>>> and express his support for Republican candidate Donald Trump, saying, "I
>>> for one cannot wait until those gosh dang democrats get swept out of office
>>> cause you know the Donald will not allow these Islam loving words to be
>>> used in the good ole US of A. We have a new haboob on the way.....and his
>>> name is Trump, the biggest haboob in the world!!!!"
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> Yet, to balance out these extreme reactions, some moderates looked down on
>>> the comments of the "ignorant" Texans who were overly critical of a weather
>>> term which, although of Arabic origin, was entirely appropriate. "Haboob"
>>> is used to describe intense dust storms often associated with
>>> thunderstorms, typical in the Middle East and Africa. It stems from  the
>>> word "habb," which, in Arabic, means "wind" or "to blow." It's use was not
>>> at all misappropriated.
>>> 
>>> <snip>
>>> Another wrote, "To all of you people complaining about a word. Do you all
>>> realize how stupid y'all look? I mean, the rest of the country and the
>>> world is laughing at y'all. Lmao [sic] stop getting offended over nothing.
>>> It's super annoying to the civilized world. We work too hard to make
>>> humanity modern and non-draconian to allow this sort of BS. Thanks."
>>> <end quote>
>>> 
>>> I might the "third Texan" quoted above is being logically inconsistent.
>>> 
>>> Is there such a word as "misappropriated"?
>>> 
>>> -James A. Landau
>>> 
>>> 
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