And think on this: every one of those coffins represents one human being. Every one of those coffins has a name, has a family, has people who grieve for their passing. Every fucking one of them.
From what I understand, in transliteration from arabic, e and i are much the same phoneme, and o/u/(sometimes a) similarly, the transcriptions being based on a given convention, and sometimes the accent of the speaker/translater. There is another 'a' phoneme which always(?) maps to "a".
Thus you will see H[ei]zb[aou]llah, each variation being a more-or-less accurate in its own way transcription of حزب الله
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Date: 2006-07-29 06:09 am (UTC)Thus you will see H[ei]zb[aou]llah, each variation being a more-or-less accurate in its own way transcription of حزب الله
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