Come on now, my Arabic etymology tweets are too silly to be true.. except the ones that are true!
Maybe I need to start using another font or a hashtag so people can recognise a joke/parody. Seems a shame to come to that.
If you want to know why I do those tweets, I’ll spell it out. On one level, it’s a parody of people who actually believe such things. I’m out-Arab-supremacing them. It’s fun.
But on another, I just enjoy the similarities in language, and imagining that these etymologies are true. You can’t unsee this when you encounter or type “et al” from now on!
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