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...word ‘Islam’ means submission. The word ‘Muslim’ means submitter. A person who submits to God if they’re Christian or Jewish is Islam,” said panelist Ali S. Asani, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and cultures...
...Asani, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and culture, said travelling has become uncomfortable...
Short for Pakistani, “right-wing politicians and white gangs” in Britain coined the term in response to substantial South Asian immigration after World War II, said Ali S. Asani, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture...
...world comprises just one word: bong. Commonly used in the West to describe a water pipe for marijuana smoking, the word means bamboo in Lao and is indicative of what the country has come to represent to many of the youthful, Western travelers who have made this Indo-Chinese nation of 5 million a haven for narco-tourists seeking the Asian high life. At any given moment in Vang Viang, a town of about 20,000, at least 50 foreigners are here mainly to partake of the opium scene, and another 100 stick around because potent, green, budded marijuana sells...
...Linguists have their own ideas about how change occurs; they have managed through a rough philological equivalent of genetic research to work back from modern languages to common roots, thus reconstructing Proto-Indo-European, a purely theoretical tongue. But as Renfrew points out, if the difficulties of dating genetic change are vexing, the ones for dating linguistic change are even harder: though linguists can chart the rate of change from, say, late Latin to early Spanish, they can't prove the same rate applies for other languages before the advent of writing...