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To: SmithL
Along with thousands of poems in his native Pashto, he completed a book intended for future poets with an alphabetical list of all the rhymes in the Pashto language. He also wrote a book of Islamic jurisprudence in verse form and translated Arabic poetry into Pashto.

Amazing, just amazing, I understand that while they were
all there, they typed out the complete works of Shakespeare too!Ooops, pardon me ALMOST the complete works of Shakespeare, they still have a few hundred years to go.
17 posted on 07/17/2005 12:55:35 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Maybe in Pashto there really is a word that rhymes with orange!


21 posted on 07/17/2005 12:58:58 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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