Arabic-L:LING:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

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1) Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

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Date: 31 Jan 2008
From:"Dr. M Deeb" <muhammaddeeb at gmail.com>
Subject:Being a native speaker of formally correct Arabic

'm afraid my short rejoinder is hastily misconstrued.  The Arabic I've  
been
using since my mid-teens has been properly structured, grammatically  
correct
Arabic.

I've also been for years exposed to such dialects as Bahraini,  
Lebanese and
Egyptian, but I fail to express myself properly in either.

Now, whether the Arabic I speak is qualified as MSA, is quite  
irrelevant,
for the term is at once elastic and often violates the norms of  
structure,
grammar and morphology.

I admit it has not been socially easy.  My lot was and still is much  
worse
than that of one of my late English professors who was met with muffled
ridicule when he used classical Arabic at the Cairo airport.

An Arab and Native Speaker of Arabic

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