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Apparently Daesh Is The New Word For Is/isis Etc

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ToraToraTora | 20:03 Wed 18th Nov 2015 | News
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-daesh-mean-isis-threatens-6841468
World leaders have started to use it, I assume the pronunciation is Day shh, so now we know what to call them.
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Avatar Image -SharonA-
I can think of something better which rhymes with shh!!
20:04 Wed 18th Nov 2015
Avatar Image Dahlia_Lama
Daesh is not new. It just hasn't been adopted by the mainstream media.
20:09 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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ISIS or ISIL are acronyms of the English translation.


'Daesh' is an acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham - 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant'.

IS hate it because it's similar to two Arabic words: 'Daes', which translates to 'one who crushes something underfoot', and 'Dahes', meaning 'one who sows discord'.

The more we use it the better.
20:12 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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"World leaders have started to use it"
...I won't then ;-)
20:15 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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well you wont want to upset your mates eh AP.
20:17 Wed 18th Nov 2015
Avatar Image retrocop
Yes. They hate it so lets all use it.Sure there are a few Daesh sympathisers here just from what i read today !!!
20:18 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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I have only heard the French use Daesh as yet.
20:19 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Well said, TTT
20:19 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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@Jackdaw33

Any chance you could help out with my linguistic puzzle thread, in Soc & Culture?

20:19 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Case proved :-)
20:20 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Early this year Tony Abbott, then Prime Minister of Australia, announced that he would begin referring to Islamic State as such, saying:
"Daesh hates being referred to by this term, and what they don't like has an instinctive appeal to me"
20:22 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Obama uses it with the rest of his advisors Tonyav . There is a link.
20:24 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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What mates? ;-)
20:25 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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They started some time ago.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11339621/Tony-Abbott-urges-leaders-to-refer-to-Isil-as-Daesh-because-they-hate-the-term.html
20:25 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Soz, Hypo. I have no knowledge of Arabic. My posts are the result of googling.

Try me with French, Russian or Welsh.
20:27 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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What mates? ;-)

Corbyn/Livingstone perhaps?
20:29 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Nah mate, they're politicians - hate them!
20:35 Wed 18th Nov 2015
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Sorry Thatcher - that was for JD!
20:36 Wed 18th Nov 2015

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