A poet slips

[A. Katz]

Ron,

Thanks for the link!

    --Aya


On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Ron Kuzar wrote:

> The most informative source, albeit a bit old, is:
> Blau, Joshua. 1981. The renaissance of modern Hebrew and modern standard
> Arabic : parallels and differences in the revival of two semitic languages
> http://books.google.com/books?id=EwbvrNRcaNIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=blau+revival+arabic&source=bl&ots=P_1nIzaFDb&sig=zCfhko8v9UY8rbZC3-OKp_P3kq4&hl=en&ei=pqikTM3NOYiPswbJoYWiCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
> Directionality has been suggested in scholarly circles as a problem. I
> am not an expert on this issue, and I do NOT believe it could be true.
> Ron
>
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:51:29 -0700 (PDT)
> "A. Katz" <amnfn at well.com> wrote:
>
>> Ron,
>>
>> Most of what you said made sense to me. I am not familiar with the revival
>> of Arabic and would be happy if you posted a link for all us Funknetters
>> on this topic. It makes sense to see different versions of the langauge as
>> gradient.
>>
>> One thing you said, though, struck me as weird. "Despite the right-to-left
>> direction...." You're not seriously suggesting that RTL or LTR makes a
>> difference in ease of reading, are you?
>>
>>     --Aya
>>
>> http://hubpages.com/hub/My-Grandfathers-Voice-Recordings-of-Benzion-Katz
>>
>>
>>
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