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anexprogrammer on Aug 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: British woman held after being seen reading book a...

Keep going... Lock up everyone who uses those radical Arabic numerals then?

gilleain on Aug 4, 2016 | [–]

Also chemistry/alchemy comes (sortof) from the Arabic "al-kīmiyā" - or further back, from the Egyptian name for Egypt.

So any chemist reading books on "Free Radicals" should be questioned immediately!

walrus01 on Aug 4, 2016 | [–]

let's ban elephants while we're at it, since elephant is derived from the arabic "al feel". Also Giraffes, arabic "zarafa"

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