Leyland Forum › Life, The Universe and Everything › Any Other Business v
Libya

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Threaded Mode
Libya
Martin Offline
Administrator
*******
Posts: 4,232
Threads: 875
Joined: Apr 2002
Reputation: 0
#1
20-Oct-2011, 07:47 PM
Muammar Gaddafi killed in Libya

Libya's ex-leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has been killed after an assault on his birthplace of Sirte, officials say.

The circumstances of his death are not yet clear. Video has emerged purporting to show Col Gaddafi being captured alive and bundled on to a truck.

Fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) said they found him hiding in a hole, and shot him when he tried to escape.

Col Gaddafi was toppled in August after 42 years in power.

bbc.co.uk
Martin ~
Website Find
Reply
Martin Offline
Administrator
*******
Posts: 4,232
Threads: 875
Joined: Apr 2002
Reputation: 0
#2
20-Oct-2011, 08:09 PM
<~~ hopes no one noticed the error!
Martin ~
Website Find
Reply
LDunlop76 Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 4,654
Threads: 200
Joined: Apr 2002
Reputation: 0
#3
20-Oct-2011, 10:05 PM
What, the misspelling of Libya? No, didn't notice it at all! ;-)
Find
Reply
Martin Offline
Administrator
*******
Posts: 4,232
Threads: 875
Joined: Apr 2002
Reputation: 0
#4
20-Oct-2011, 10:26 PM
That wasn't it Linda. But I've fixed that one.
Martin ~
Website Find
Reply
Karen Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 866
Threads: 47
Joined: Jan 2003
Reputation: 0
#5
21-Oct-2011, 12:34 AM
Shouldn't there be an h in Gadhafi!!![:p]
T. D.
Find
Reply
noel Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 9,242
Threads: 140
Joined: May 2002
Reputation: 0
#6
21-Oct-2011, 12:41 AM
The BBC spell it as Gaddafi. I don't find any pleasure in seeing people killed. Evil sod though he was.

By the way, you missed the full stop off Col[Smile]
Find
Reply
LDunlop76 Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 4,654
Threads: 200
Joined: Apr 2002
Reputation: 0
#7
22-Oct-2011, 01:19 PM
A momentous event and all we do is joke about spelling and punctuation - what are we like?!
Find
Reply
anacortesdamp Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 3,079
Threads: 203
Joined: May 2002
Reputation: 0
#8
22-Oct-2011, 04:26 PM
Any non-Arabic representation of the langauge is an attempt to duplicate the sound when it's spoken in Arabic. I was a bit surprised, when in Bahrain on business, to find some really peculiar spellings on street signs in one area of town.

I mentioned it to one of the ex-pat Brits who said "Can you pronounce things in German?" When I said yes, he said "try it on thos funny spellings". They came out sounding Arabic. It turned out that there had been a very strong ex-pat German community in the area and their attempt to get the sounds of Arabic had obviously been done in German.

I've seen at least a dozen different spellings of "Qadaffi" and none of them reproduce the odd gargling sound that Arabic speakers use when they speak it or similar words.


Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
Find
Reply
Dave H Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 1,082
Threads: 76
Joined: Dec 2010
Reputation: 0
#9
22-Oct-2011, 10:41 PM
Greek has the same problems unless you are welsh, it`s phonetic with gutteral sounds like welsh. And numerous spellings of place names, we live in the Chania, Hania, Xania, region of Kriti,Creta, Crete, you pays your money and you takes your choice.
djh
Find
Reply
filmoss Offline
Posting Freak
*****
Posts: 1,891
Threads: 202
Joined: Jan 2009
Reputation: 0
#10
23-Oct-2011, 02:56 AM
Drunk reply !! ....Iran !! Someone is going to make some big money out of this !"!
Find
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)