Arabic-L:LING:qaaf jokes

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Date: 29 Oct 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: qaaf jokes

> There's an Egyptian joke involving glottal stop/qaaf:
>
> A goat leaves the village, goes to Cairo, and studies at Al-Azhar.
> He goes back home, and the other goats asked him what he learned.
> He says, "Maaq!"
>
> Jackie Murgida <jmurg at star.net>
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	Murgida's goat is not only cultivated in the traditional sciences
	of al-Azhar, but also "well-grazed" in the field of literary
	theory.  I heard this joke in my childhood, and did
	not make much of it beyond the "qaaf-hamza"
	dialectics.

	Now, I'm persuaded to see the variations of this goat as direct
	echoes of "intertextuality" and "anxiety-influence."  Here is
	the narrative:

		To the repeated knocks at the gate of heavens,
		an angel screamed: "Who is there?"  "It is I,"
		came a self-confident answer. The testy angel
		groaned: "Heavens!  Another don from Oxford!"
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								M. Deeb

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2)
Date: 29 Oct 1999
From: GnhBos at aol.com
Subject: qaaf jokes

The same goes for my brother in law, he is a Lebanese Durzi (Druz).
They only "YatakaLLamoun BiL'Qaf", and claim that their dialect is
the proper and right way to speak the Arabic language.

When I visited his village, a couple of years ago, he asked me not to
even try to speak "BiLqaf", because their way is unique, and my dialect
is too Beiruti and can't fake their "Qaf".

Best Regards,

George N. Hallak

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