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Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Re: Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Similarly why Eskimo people has so many words for ice and likewise Arabic has so many words for sword. In terestingly the Quran as the corpus and golden standard for Arabic language does not contains the word sword in its entirety.

Arabic has hundreds of words for Camel. Never heard the Arabic example with sword before.

Re: Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know this how ? I stand by what I said your comment is malicious

No worries, you're entitled to your opinion. The following statement is taken from the article in [1]. The noted historian De Lacy O'Leary wrote: "History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated." [1] [1] Islam spread by the m…

And definitely not imposed on newly conquered lands, where temples were broken, and mosques built on the ruins, using the same stone.

Re: Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No worries, you're entitled to your opinion. The following statement is taken from the article in [1]. The noted historian De Lacy O'Leary wrote: "History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated." [1] [1] Islam spread by the m…

And definitely not imposed on newly conquered lands, where temples were broken, and mosques built on the ruins, using the same stone.

Calm down now, they aren't Christians.
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