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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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I suspect that the owners of both “Berber” and “Bedouin” varieties could not care less about proper ethnological nomenclature and just called them “saif”:-) The very name “shashka” is a Russified modification of a local name “ sesh hua”, i.e. “ big knife”. Most of the oriental swords are locally called “ sword” and knives - “knife”. Bloody savages! No respect for our venerable “ name game”!:-)))) |
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