That may well be, but consider this: Imagine Arabic is your first language, and that some European language (indicated by the crossed sevens) was your second--they don't cross the sevens in England. English is your third language. How much trouble might you have transliterating "jihad" into English?
To: metmom
“Otherwise, who’d get the blame?”
Heh. See what you mean.
I kind of blew it off as a kid’s prank at first but looking at the handwriting makes me think “English as a second language”. The way the characters were essentially drawn makes me think that their primary alphabet is not a Western one.
17 posted on 09/17/2007 1:40:08 PM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
I'm right there with you. ;)