[Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non continentalArabic Language Academy

[Oliver Mason]

Dear Hamed,

as I understood Tony, he suggested to not limit the membership of this
prospective NGO to people belonging to either a particular religion or
ethnic group.

While most speakers of Arabic may be either Arabs or Muslims, or even
both, there will also be non-Arab speakers of Arabic who also might be
non-Muslims.  These you would exclude with your current proposal.  Why
not leave it open to anybody who can speak Arabic?  You do not lose
anything, but may gain a lot, as Tony suggested.

Best wishes,
Oliver

2009/11/16 Hamed Al-Suhli <hamed at e3rab.com>:
> Dear Tony,
> Salam,
>
> You have a point, but As you know there is no Arabic Language speaker but
> there are persons who could understand Arabic language and write it, most of
> them are Arabs whome are not necessarily Muslims, but the non Muslim Arabs
> are less than non Arabs Muslims who can understand Arabic, and all Muslims
> consider Arabic as central Language for understand Islam.
> Also non Muslim Arabs have Islamic culture, so they don't have essential
> problems with Islamic umbrella "Lebanon is a member of OIC oic-oic.org".
>
> in short word Standard Arabic "ALfussha" is more important to non Arabic
> Muslims than non Muslims Arabs.
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Mcenery, Tony
> <eiaamme at exchange.lancs.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Hamed,
>>
>>
>>
>> An interesting idea – I think most people would certainly welcome the
>> development of a trans-national language academy for a trans-national
>> language. But would it not be better if your goal was to build an academy
>> for all speakers of Arabic, whether they are Muslim or not? I think that
>> would be quite in line with the finest historical examples of inclusiveness
>> in scholarship in the Arabic speaking world. Best,
>>
>>
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] On Behalf Of
>> Hamed Al-Suhli
>> Sent: 16 November 2009 13:43
>> To: linguist at linguistlist.org; elsnet-arabic at elsnet.org; corpora at uib.no
>> Subject: [Corpora-List] Proposal for initiating a global non
>> continentalArabic Language Academy
>>
>>
>>
>> English version:
>> Proposal to initiate a non government or National organization controlled
>> Islamic universal Academy for Arabic language, centralized by the Idea of
>> Arabic is for all muslims not only Arabs.
>> the current Arabic Language academies are controlled by every countries
>> government, so they have all the problems of the Arabic politics systems,
>> also used by every government for Ideological political purposes which
>> resulted at loosing there scientific academic objectives.
>> most of these academies are very far from the technical developement, and
>> the needs of terms localization thus the new horizons of computational
>> linguistics research
>>
>> this information is intended for Arabic Linguistics, thou this is a brief
>> outlines of the previous Arabic message.
>>
>> --
>> Hamed Al-Suhli
>> http://e3rab.com
>>
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> Hamed Al-Suhli
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Dr Oliver Mason
Technical Director of the Centre for Corpus Research
School of English, Drama, and ACS
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham B15 2TT

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