XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.sex.shemale
HenHanna wrote:
Shee-mal means “left" in Coptic/old Egyptian language (not
same as East though) which happened to sound similar to “Shamal" or
North in proper Arabic, where the proper Arabic word for “left” is “Yaasar".
Why is the word 'شمال' used as the meaning of 'left' in ...
---------- Because 'shemaal' is the most common in Egyptian arabic and other dialects. · However, “yasaar" is the correct MSA word for left. ·
(than -phile) In comparison...
-philia
-philiac
are much more suggestive of abnormality and/or Disease (than -phile)
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