@AFICIONADO (From your comment yesterday) Do you speak Maltese? I know it’s related to Arabic. What is the Maltese word for your child’s parents-in-law? I was thinking of learning Maltese as a way of learning Arabic since Maltese is written in Roman letters and, no matter how much I study, I can’t master the Arabic alphabet. Too bad, because Uyghur (see my avatar) is written with Arabic letters and I can’t read the lyrics to the Uyghur songs on my Uyghur DVDs.
tactics n. a Polish breath mint.Maltese is the only Semitic language to use the Latin alphabet. It is related (some linguists say descended from) an Arabic dialect once spoken in Sicily but now extinct, giving it much vocabulary borrowed from Italian.
@AFFICIANADO & RUNAR. Thanks for the very interesting information about Maltese. I guess that explains the words for in-laws that sound more Italian than Semitic. Fascinating the that Arabic managed to have a toehold (no pun intended) in Sicily.
Now that I’ve read the comments the language parts are interesting. I took French in HS but had a VERY American teacher with poor pronunciation so I lost interest. I took 2 years of Latin in college (Roman and Church) and studied Spanish from a pair of used text books after a trip to Mexico, so I can read and write it. I include a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book in my reading every year now to excercise my brain. This year was Cien Anos de Soledad.
@Stephan Gilberg: Dad’s expression rivals the expression on Grandma’s (the old-fashioned one) face when she wanted to slug her mechutanes (the other grandmother) a few days ago in the contempory version – which you can access by clicking on the right where it says “click here.”
arye uygur about 12 years ago
@AFICIONADO (From your comment yesterday) Do you speak Maltese? I know it’s related to Arabic. What is the Maltese word for your child’s parents-in-law? I was thinking of learning Maltese as a way of learning Arabic since Maltese is written in Roman letters and, no matter how much I study, I can’t master the Arabic alphabet. Too bad, because Uyghur (see my avatar) is written with Arabic letters and I can’t read the lyrics to the Uyghur songs on my Uyghur DVDs.
thisisretarded about 12 years ago
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!TAC-TICS! Get it? It’s the opposite of Tic Tacs! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
runar about 12 years ago
tactics n. a Polish breath mint.Maltese is the only Semitic language to use the Latin alphabet. It is related (some linguists say descended from) an Arabic dialect once spoken in Sicily but now extinct, giving it much vocabulary borrowed from Italian.
arye uygur about 12 years ago
@AFFICIANADO & RUNAR. Thanks for the very interesting information about Maltese. I guess that explains the words for in-laws that sound more Italian than Semitic. Fascinating the that Arabic managed to have a toehold (no pun intended) in Sicily.
melmarsh9v about 12 years ago
At the first panel, I expected the punch line to involve woodticks and thumbtacks.
vldazzle about 12 years ago
This goes well with Fleshy’s tuna water on Monty.
vldazzle about 12 years ago
Now that I’ve read the comments the language parts are interesting. I took French in HS but had a VERY American teacher with poor pronunciation so I lost interest. I took 2 years of Latin in college (Roman and Church) and studied Spanish from a pair of used text books after a trip to Mexico, so I can read and write it. I include a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book in my reading every year now to excercise my brain. This year was Cien Anos de Soledad.
Stephen Gilberg about 12 years ago
That’s quite an expression for Dad.
arye uygur about 12 years ago
@Stephan Gilberg: Dad’s expression rivals the expression on Grandma’s (the old-fashioned one) face when she wanted to slug her mechutanes (the other grandmother) a few days ago in the contempory version – which you can access by clicking on the right where it says “click here.”
iced tea about 12 years ago
Joe had a good comeback.