Arabic-L:LING:Comment on Simplifying Arabic Call

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 04 May  2005
From:wasamy at umich.edu
Subject:Comment on Simplifying Arabic Call

> http://ww.islamonline.net/English/News/2005-04/27/article04.shtmlw :"
> Teachers and linguists have called for simplifying the syntactic rules
> of
> Arabic after young Muslim generations in the West had found learning
> the
> language a bothersome experience."

I can't help wandering what is meant by "simplifying the syntactic
rules".
 From an Egyptian perspective, this sounds more like parents speaking.
Furthermore, it might be an issue of content, as opposed to syntax.

Waheed Samy

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