Re: Arabic

["Annette M. Stroud" <astroud@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, John Grove wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Eric Farnell <bfarnell@xxxxxxx>
> To: Voynich List <voynich@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:26 AM
> Subject: Arabic
> >  I was told that
> > future tense could be expressed 'if Allah wills it'.  I don't
> > really know much about Arabic except the complaints I heard from
> > people who started adding 'humdilluh' to every English phrase as
> > a joke.  Does anyone out there know enough about Arabic to tell
> > me if this is a valid idea?  Are there any similar things in
> > other languages?
> > Regards,
> > Brian
> 
>     I'm not an Arabic linguist and thus can't vouch for the above, although
> it is quite interesting. However, there are an awful lot of Gallows in the
> VMS.

There are number of letter combinations in Arabic that get written in
vertical combination.  The gallows letters might be representing that or
something like that.

Annette (forgetting more arabic than I ever learned)