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Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by rvense on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:06PM (#20288115)
Its formal name is 'amanual autoasphyxiation', because to pronounce the 'ayn, you simply attempt to strangle yourself without using your hands.

I remember looking up from my grammar book one day I felt particularly stupid and saying to one of my classmates that this language must have been thought up by a sadist on a bad day! To which they replied that he was, in fact, probably having his best day ever.

(I never learned to speak it, properly, but I feel better for having attempted)

Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by manuka on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @04:05PM (#20288599)
autoasphyxiation isn't it a "self-strangling" in latin :)
Re:Why Arabic Is Terrific (2011) by schoen on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:37PM (#20290427)