>>>>> "BL" == Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BL> Gee. "Secretly"? I would have sworn it would have meant something like BL> "a noisy gang". At least, "kabaal" in (Flemish) Dutch means a lot of BL> loud noise. (For those people from Holland: you would call it "herrie".) BL> BTW my "Dutch dictionary of foreign words" says that the above word (not BL> the "noise") comes from Hebrew, indicating some sort of secret oral BL> doctrine only intended for a chosen few. (rough translation by me). I BL> have no clue where "kabaal" comes from, but it could well share the same BL> origin. Funny how the meaning of words can turn upside down so BL> completely. the kabbalah is a collection of mystical and spiritual jewish teachings and writings over the last two thousand years. it doesn't have anything to do with the word cabal AFAIK. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com -- Stem is an Open Source Network Development Toolkit and Application Suite - ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
