| Author | Message | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 579 Registered: 9-2009 |
this is a scrund about a dead bad guy. | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1296 Registered: 12-2010 |
A real dead bad guy? a fictional one? Osama bin Laden? If not, did he live in [LTPF list of centuries]? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 668 Registered: 2-2011 |
was it your scrund or someone else's? a popular scrund or one specific person's? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 581 Registered: 9-2009 |
A real dead bad guy? a fictional one? Osama bin Laden?this guy, nice guess If not, did he live in [LTPF list of centuries]? a popular scrund or one specific person's?not exactly sure...it is a scrund I had till a few days ago..a pretty simple one. | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3763 Registered: 9-2010 |
that he was the illegitimate child of Carmen Sandiego and Waldo? *snerk* No, that's not a scrund, that's a joke, considering how freaking hard he was to find. That he was already dead? | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1305 Registered: 12-2010 |
Was it about his name? nationality? place of birth? age? physical appearance? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 582 Registered: 9-2009 |
Was it about his name?this | ||
| Doriana (Doriana)
New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 1306 Registered: 12-2010 |
Was it about the spelling? The pronunciation? Did you think it was his full name? Did you think that "bin Laden" is like a Western last name (and not a patronymic, since bin/ben/ibn... usually mean "son of")? | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3769 Registered: 9-2010 |
about his first name? his last name? did you think 'bin' was his middle name? | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 673 Registered: 2-2011 |
was it about the meaning of his name? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 585 Registered: 9-2009 |
about his first name? Was it about the spelling? these | ||
| Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin)
New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 3781 Registered: 9-2010 |
Osama? Did you think it was spelled differently? Surely you didn't think it was "Obama"? | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 587 Registered: 9-2009 |
Osama? yesDid you think it was spelled differently? yesSurely you didn't think it was "Obama"?no | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13667 Registered: 4-2010 |
Usama? (which is an alternate but correct spelling) | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 588 Registered: 9-2009 |
*******SPOILER****** Osama bin Laden is actually spelled Usama bin Laden. Even some of the news channels spell it Osama which actually surprised me. GOOD JOB BALIN! | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 13676 Registered: 4-2010 |
I think they're both correct spellings - Wikipedia has it with an O. And that was a lucky shot. Good puzzle! | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 589 Registered: 9-2009 |
Yeah but wiki's info is right about 60% of the time though. So I'm not completely sure where the O came from...but yeah. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 725 Registered: 2-2011 |
maybe it's just because they don't use the same alphabet as us? | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 943 Registered: 8-2001 |
Shez, it is. The spelling variations come from converting it into our alphabet...so I'm not sure there is a "correct" spelling, just ones that are favored by certain news outlets. | ||
| Shez (Shez)
New member Username: Shez Post Number: 726 Registered: 2-2011 |
:oD | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 950 Registered: 8-2001 |
Per Wikipedia (which has dubious cred, but I've seen this same discussion on other sites with links and quotes from numerous world news orgs): There is no universally accepted standard for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English;[9] bin Laden's name was most frequently rendered "Osama bin Laden". The FBI and CIA, as well as other U.S. governmental agencies, have used either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin", both of which may be abbreviated as "UBL". Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama Ben Laden" in the French-language media. Other spellings include "Binladen" or, as used by his family in the West, "Binladin". The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, where bin Laden spent many years. | ||
| Fleemco198 (Fleemco198)
New member Username: Fleemco198 Post Number: 590 Registered: 9-2009 |
Wow, you learn something new every day!! | ||
| Vesica (Vesica)
New member Username: Vesica Post Number: 952 Registered: 8-2001 |
I kinds of like "Oussama". I guess in French that might sound the same...maybe...kinda... |
