Re: [TANGO-L] Farqyu Uptabut - my name

[Manuk Colakyan <manukc @citynet.net>]

Ok Mr. Farqyu,

Now that we are all enlightened with  the meaning of  your name and
amazed with your overnight mastery of the English language, we are still
puzzled (at least I am) about the location of your little village.  I
had hard time placing San Francisco, California on a Turkish map :)

You were asking if Rick was real.  Welll we don't know,  since I think
he was a Bunny once...Nobody knows who is real on this list...

Best Regards,
Manuk (not to be confused with Nanook of the North)

Farkyu Uptabut wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I communicated to Jay in private my feelings about some of the names of
> apparent real people who have names with unfortunate meanings when
> taken out of context.  As for my own name which Jay says is "too clever"
> and "obviously contrived" :
>
> Farkyu or Farqyu is a regional variant of the Arabic name "Farqu" which
> after
> all is just an approximation of an Arabic sound.
>
> "Up" or "Ub"or "uh" is a sort of prefix, I can't describe it exactly, and
> "Tabut"
> means a coffin or box, and refers specifically to the Ark of the
> Covenant,
> which is commonly known to the religions of most of the reader of this
> list.
>
> If I could find those words, (which after all are my name), and
> contrive of
> them a nasty insult in English, well, I thank you for the compliment of
> thinking that I could be that clever, which is much more clever than I
> really am.
>
> I hope that you will check on this, and I hope that Jay will convey to
> this list his feelings about the reasonableness of my comments to him,
> if not the details.
>
> Sorry this isn't more about tango.  I have been thinking about these
> suspicions about my name, and  although they may be reasonable and
> people are mostly nice about it, I feel I have to reply.
>
> Farqyu
>
> > So I challenge you to either persuade us, or confess and perhaps explain
> > why
> > you chose to deceive us, or stay off the list. I might add that your
> > questions seem to be genuine, and your viewpoint may well contribute
> > significantly to the discussion, but not under such an obviously
> > contrived
> > alias. If you want to remain anonymous for whatever reason, then do
> > so, but
> > say so, and quit trying to fark with us.
> >
> >     J in Portland
>
>
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