Arabic-L:LING:Dialect Confidence

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Date: 05 Apr 2000
From: Benjamin Troutman <troutmab at gusun.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Dialect Confidence

>   What is "dialect confidence"?

dialect confidence is the ability to say 'gamel 'abdul nasr' instead of
the way 'it should be'...
dialect confidence is the ability to say that, as the maltese will say,
'we are NOT a dialect of arabic.'

all the best,

benjamin

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