Jin-Jess!
Posted on 09/02/2004 1:08:33 PM PDT by OESY
The Mongols made quite an impression on the surviving Muslims, an impression that persists to this day.
Remember when Saddam's giant statue was pulled down in Baghdad? The soldier who briefly draped the Stars and Stripes over Saddam's face appeared to be of Asian ancestry. Islamic media throughout the world seized on this as evidence of a new "Mongol" invasion. Their fifth column media allies in the west dutifully ignored this, lest the downtrodden Islamos themselves be accused of racism.
"Is that a ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?" Madeline Khan or Kahn or Lili Von Shtupp..
Jin-Jess!
You would think that Genghis would have had more pride in his work!
Well, I for one think that Genghis spoke exactly like John Wayne. And if he didn't, he should have.
Who gave you permission to defile my name?
Gee, all this time, I thought that famous quote of his included the phrase "to hear the lamentations of their women". I guess that was just Arnold's line.
Gee whiz. I thought it was Jack Palance who portrayed Attila the Hun.
You are giving away your age with this quote. I guess I am too by recognizing that fact.
You are Mr. Khan aren't you? The squash champion?
Thank you, Mr. Kerry.
Sorry. Low blow.
Darn. Close, but no cigar.
Yes it does! Belgian Shepherd all the way!
Nothing like collectible fine china for $19.99 every other month for a year. Our culture was surely lacking before the Franklin Mint came along.
It's hard to get worked up about the English spelling of foreign (other than English) names. Beijing/Peiping/Peiking; Koran/Quran; etc. Consider the way certain letters are pronounced differently in Mandarin, for example, than they would be in English. (XIN is pronounced SHIN; QING is pronounced CHING; etc.) To insist every foreign word be spelled phonetically isn't going to work. Especially, since there are sounds in some languages that we can't really duplicate precisely.
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