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  1. Posted

    oh on the extended vowels let me add this.

     

    EE as in jail, thus jail would be spelled in somali as jeel

     

    II as in meat, thus meat would be spelled in somali as miit

     

    OO as in goal, thus goalwould be spelled in somali as gool

     

    UU as in pool, thus pool would be spelled in somali as puul

  2. Posted

    imperial lady allow me to make some corrections:

     

    B T J X KH D R S SH DH C G F Q K L M N W H Y

     

    vowels (short)

    A E I O U

     

    (long)

    AA EE II OO UU

     

    explanation:

     

    B as in Basement

    T as in Tag

    J as in mojam

     

    X as in arabic name Muhammad spelled in somali as Maxamad

     

    KH as in arabic name Kalid bin Walid(KHaalid somali spelling)

    D as in Dad

    R as in Rat

    S as in Same

    SH as in SHame

    DH neither english nor arabic have this

    C This one is tricky not as in cat but as in surah 80 of the Quran Abasa would be spelled in somali as Cabasa

    G as in Game

    F as in Fame

    Q as in the arabic word pen Qalam (surah 68 of the quran al-Qalam)

    K regular K

    L regular L

    M regular M

    N regular N

    W regular W as in world

    H as in hotel

    Y as in Yasin

     

    A as in C A T

    E as in NE T

    I as in TI N

    O as in boa t

    U as in YOU

     

    AA extended A

    EE as in jail

    II as in meat

    OO as in goal

    UU as in pool

     

    let me know if this makes things clearer

     

    ps Iska waran? = how are you?

  4. Posted

    I was at work at the time of the blackout. Many of us were slacking off in the lunch room and then it happened. Never seen anything like it before. The lights dimmen then went off ... and then to our surprise came back on. About 3 minutes later it all shut down.

     

    been without hydro for 22 hours before it came back on yesterday but we're supposed to concerve because we're only at 60% of our regular power supply in the city. Yeah right! ;)

     

    Other than the little inconvenience of no ac the one day, i have no other complaint. Many people just got power back this day not too far away from here. Many were stuck in elevators, subways, and amusement parks accross the east coast. And last but not least how about the many Iraqis who have been living without ac for months because their power plants have been bombed.

  16. Posted

    The somali team is good... trust me if they held Cameroun at 3-0 both games, they can put a fight against Ghana or any other team for that matter.

     

    Although, Cameroun isn't a really though team, they are the African champions. The FIFA ranking system doesn't say too much about a team but cameroun is the highest ranked African team.

     

    Lefty, I think the our team can do very well with the domestic talent but it needs money and lots of it.

  21. Posted

    The following letter was read on a local radio hip hop/ r&b radio station. It is a letter supposedly from a white person that has been in circulation. Check it out. Some of the people that called to the show actually agreed with it (eventhough they were blacks). Is there some truth to this, or is it better to dismiss it. It certainly has got me thinking.

     

    BLACKS DON'T READ

     

    THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS.

     

    Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book." We live now in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com, not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.

     

    GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income (2.22%). Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing. They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business.

     

    Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU. And they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives the "Status" or that they have achieved the American Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities. With the help of BET, and the rest of their Black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn't want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They'll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.

     

    SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, W. E. B. Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form" of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn't read that the "Talented Tenth" was then responsible to aid the Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of the goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness?

     

    They steadfastly refuse to see that "TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM)! They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own. In fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two paychecks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our boardrooms.

     

    Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are "helping" their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, 'THEY DON'T READ!!!!'

     

    http://www.fm98wjlb.com/reading.html

     

    (Prove them wrong. Please pass this on!)

     

    [ September 02, 2003, 02:02 AM: Message edited by: Admin ]

  22. Posted

    "I hope we can meet one day in lascano"

     

    so do i guraad, make sure you bring me back some pictures this summer... aight.

     

    Angel,

     

    Yeah tribalism is the biggest ailment us somalis have ... we need to find a cure very soon!

     

    Che,

     

    you got that right when you said someone from Hargeisa or Garowe should not be talking on behalf of Sool.