Arabic-L:LING:Comment on Simplifying Arabic Call

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Arabic-L: Tue 10 May  2005
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Date: 10 May  2005
From:arabicl at alinsyria.fsnet.co.uk
Subject:Comment on Simplifying Arabic Call

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> 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.
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>

On reading the full article, it seems clear that the conference wants to
improve teaching methods rather than 'change the syntactic rules' of
arabic.
The author of the article seems to have written a poor summary.

Abdulhaq Lynch

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