My *darling *friends, loyal opposition, and slavering tards, I’m so *terribly *sorry I’ve had to neglect you for so long. Unfortunately, since I post from the office, that means that the things I get paid to do come first, and the things I get paid to do have been coming hot and heavy (*if *you know what I mean) for the past month and a half. Special bonus: for at least a while, the boards somehow ended up on our filter.
But now! At last! I’ve cleared the nastiest of the major projects off my plate. And this morning, I happened to click a link from a friend from the boards who was checking up on me, and LO!Yea verily, I once again could access the SDMB while on the company network.
As always, I’ll never know when I might again be called to actually *work *for my salary, thus being forced to neglect you yet again. But, for the time being, it appears:
Thanks for checking in. We’ll let you know if something interesting happens on the Dope. Until then, feel free to focus on your work. Really, we’ll call you.
There’s no such language as “Lebanese”, trust me there. The currency has French and Arabic. (Technically, the 1,000 note, which is the small change, has Phoenician on it as well.)
Admittedly, I don’t know much about the area, I was just going by this wiki article. Lebanese Arabic which starts out with “Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic…”
The wiki article on Lebanon says “The majority of Lebanese people speak Lebanese Arabic”
So from those two statements I felt it was fair to say that one of the languages spoken in Lebanon was Lebanese. But I’m open to being corrected.
The wiki article on Lebanese Arabic seems to refer to it as both a dialect of Arabic and also it’s own language, so I’m not really sure which one it is.
Pretty much a dialect, in the sense that every Arabic-speaking country has its own dialect, which are fairly distinct from formal/written Arabic but not really separate languages.