Re: John and Imre....was: weapons

--- Jared Hilal <jlhilal@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > And in my squad
> > we got a guy who's picking up a lot of Arabic, but
> > he's Makmood Tikriti (Brother of Tikrit, or
> something
> > to that effect)
> 
> 
> "Makmood" is a mispronunciation of Mahmood (with a
> very hard "H"),
> which means "the one for whom thanks is given", a
> common muslim name.
> 
> "Tikriti" means "of Tikrit" or "from Tikrit".  Its
> use in this case is
> as a place-name surname, like "Luciano" or
> "Lucassi".  Place-name
> surnames are quite common in arabic.

Honestly, all that matters is that he's going native
and we give him much, much hassle about it.

John

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