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To: kumar who wrote (6854)	10/2/2000 8:29:56 PM
From: Pawhuska49	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22706

dictionary vs phonetic (ie. spoken words) Understood. These greetings have some traditional overtones, however, and it's my (limited) experience that they are pronounced a little more formally. Maybe somebody who actually knows something can weigh in on this issue. Almost invariably, an exchange between me and someone else in the Arabic-speaking world would produce one of two questions: #1 hel enta muslim (Are you a muslim?) #2 hel enta isra'ayli? (Are you Israeli?) Both questions were suggested by my accent. Same deal in the German-speaking world, where it was "Sind Sie Holländer?" (Are you Dutch?) mpw@didn'ttakemeforalawyer,though.edu