Posted by Joe from 09-167.024.popsite.net (66.19.5.167) on Monday, March 18, 2002 at 9:34PM :
In Reply to: On Love, and Stella & I posted by Jeff from bgp01107368bgs.wbrmfd01.mi.comcast.net (68.42.59.180) on Monday, March 18, 2002 at 7:16PM :
at bethsuryoyo check the greeting cards then
valentine's day cards.
it's in westren assyrian(yoyo).
hope this will help
: Ha!
: I bet you thought that this post was about something else... Fred?? Pancho??
: Anyway,
: Stella and I have this disagreement about our language. She, of course, is fluent beyond all of my expectations, and I have, thanks to her, a 75-100 word vocabulary which I have been working on.
: Anyway, she insists that while our language has a word for love "Hubba", that it is only a noun, and can not be used as a verb. She asserts that if a husband wanted to say "I love you" to his dear wife or vise versa (in our language), that no such phrase exists.
: I, being the aramaic expert and rhetorician that I am, insisted that there was indeed such a phrase (or verb), and that I would prove it by asking family members.
: I haven't asked them yet, but was wondering if any of you could make my day or crush me like a bug under a fat man's foot by answering this question... please?
: It's up to you.
-- Joe
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