<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 8 Sep 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Arabic romanization in social networking media<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 8 Sep 2010<br>From: Joseph Lowry <<a href="mailto:joseph.lowry@verizon.net">joseph.lowry@verizon.net</a>><br>Subject: Arabic romanization in social networking media<br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>A colleague in Chinese has asked me whether Arabic speakers use <br>"romanization" on their Facebook or other social networking pages. <br>Since I work almost exclusively on premodern texts, and also do not <br>subscribe to any social networking sites, I am doubly unqualified to <br>answer this question, so I am asking you. Can I ask you please to <br>respond directly to me and I will collate your answers and forward <br>them to my colleague. If anyone happens to be studying this <br>phenomenon, which probably extends to the use of romanization in any <br>digital media, like texting, I'm sure my colleague would like to hear <br>from you and I could put you in touch.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Joe Lowry<br><br>Dr. Joseph E. Lowry<br>Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies<br>Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations<br>847 Williams Hall<br>255 South 36th Street<br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104<br>(215) 898-7466<br><a href="mailto:elowry@sas.upenn.edu">elowry@sas.upenn.edu</a><br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 8 Sep 2010<br></div></body></html>