If everybody used "Usama" then nobody would confuse it with Obama

[Duer 157099]

And I'm speaking to liberals, too, because I have heard just about everybody make the error and slip up.

But once you put that "U" there, suddenly it's not possible to make the error.

See?

[Bravo Zulu]

1. Will do!

[pintobean]

2. They'd be totally confused.

[uppityperson]

3. I find writing President Obama helps also.

Obama Osama, similar
President Obama, Osama, different.

[CBGLuthier]

4. That and only calling him Bin Laden

Should not use his first name anyway. First names are for friends. Motherfucker wasn't no friend of mine.

[Duer 157099]

5. Or perhaps bin Leaden

he's been leaden down in more ways than one

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. I like Bin Hidin'. n/t

[Electric Monk]

6. You were friends with Bin Laden? Wow. Tell us about it.

Or, you could learn about double negatives.

http://www.jimloy.com/language/double.htm

re: "Motherfucker wasn't no friend of mine."

[pintobean]

8. feel better?

[Electric Monk]

12. A little. How about you?

[pintobean]

16. Not really

The grammar police ain't no assholes.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. bin Laden, thats what I've been calling him

I hate the mix ups....agree, Usama works too.

[kestrel91316]

9. Or, in the alternative, we could be consistent and use BOTH men's last names.

Obama.

Bin Ladin.

Nothing remotely similar to get confused about there.

[MineralMan]

10. He's not bin Laden any more. He's "Heavy Laden"

and on the bottom of the Arabian Sea.

[KansDem]

11. It wouldn't work, you'd have "USA" and "MA"

Visualizing this would send Repubs into a contorted tizzy...

[backscatter712]

13. Good idea.

Though it's a tough habit to change - everybody's been calling him Osama and mixing him up with Obama for too long.

But I'll start calling him Usama.

[Speck Tater]

14. You are over estimating the IQ of morons. They'd call the prez Ubama. nt

[hunter]

17. Does cut & paste from wikipedia work here?

أسامة بن لادن

The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Laden", not "bin Laden" alone, as "bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. In its expanded form, it means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden". According to bin Laden's son Omar bin Laden, the family's hereditary surname is "al-Qahtani" (Arabic: ‎القحطاني‎, āl-Qaḥṭānī), but bin Laden's father Mohammed bin Laden never officially registered the name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden

It works in my browser.

[Duer 157099]

18. Boy they sure do read between the lines

somehow "bin Laden" doesn't directly translate to "son of Laden" but somehow magically also includes "son of Mohammed, son of Awad" -- how do they do that?

So, his real name should be Usama al-Qahtani?