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1) Subject:translation for 'common sense'
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Date: 25 Mar 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Albrecht Hofheinz <<a href="mailto:albrecht.hofheinz@ikos.uio.no">albrecht.hofheinz@ikos.uio.no</a>></span>
Subject:translation for 'common sense'
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Dear listers,<br><br>What would be your suggestion for translating "common sense" to <br>Arabic? In German/Norwegian, it's "healthy"/sound sense (gesunder <br>Menschenverstand / sunn fornuft - I won't go into the long-debated <br>differences between Verstand and Vernunft here, but note that both are <br>less 'sensual' than 'sense'). In French, c.s. is "good" sense (bon <br>sens).<br><br>In Arabic, عقل and معقول may fill some of the same function <br>(cf. العقل السليم في الجسم السليم). What do you <br>suggest?<br><br>Thank you,<br>Albrecht Hofheinz<br><br><br>Albrecht Hofheinz, dr.philos.<br>Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Culture<br>Dept. of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages<br>University of Oslo<br>tel. +47-2285 6854, mob. +47-47285768<br></span>
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