Saturday, December 29, 2007

Choosing a word for 'God'

The story highlighted at the end of this article gives some hint of the trouble of working in a foreign language. Imagine that you are in Malaysia and the majority of Malaysians tell you that the Arabic word "allah" is a generic term for "god." What would you do?

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Malaysian row over word for 'God'

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