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Date: Fri Dec 15 09:50:59 1995
From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <shoulson@CS.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sera'aku secu'utu'azo PLI mela'ogy. metaphors gy.
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In-Reply-To:  <199512141638.LAA20130@cs.columbia.edu> (message from Don Wiggins
              on Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:39:52 GMT)
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>Date:         Thu, 14 Dec 1995 16:39:52 GMT
>From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins%BFSEC.BT.CO.UK@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>

>> 'Course, in Hebrew, it's "baVEL."

>giving "la baVEL."

>> the land of Shinar (Babylonia)

>and "la cinar.".  Though these are not by any means obvious to
 English-speakers.

If you're intending to translate from Hebrew, it'd be "la cinAR." (dropping
the pharyngeal `ayin from shin`ar, which is probably the Right Thing).

~mark