Rico says he's ranted about this before, but he's really tired of the media using improper transliterations of Arabic, like Al Qaeda (or Qaida, or any of the several other spellings out there) and Al Fajr and Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, let alone Al Sharpton and Al Bundy and Al Yankovic and Al Roker...
For the (but even Rico knows it's not) last time, it's 'al-Qaeda', dammit.
You say Al Qaeda and I say Al Qaida.
ReplyDeleteLet's call the whole thing off.
I guess that's probably the first time you've heard that one...TODAY!
By the way:
ACHTUNG, ASSASSIN!