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To: magslinger
You're welcome.

That's so 7th century. Just the sort of language you need for the prcise communication a high tech society requires.

LOL! You're right, this is why students in Arab countries learn Medicine, Engineering, Science, High Tech, etc in English, French or German (rare).

Arabic is a very rich and difficult language. Just to give you an example :

Count how many combinations of tenses and forms there are for verb "to be". I counted in the high teens or low twenties. Maybe I'm wrong; however, it can't approach the opposite number for an Arabic verb!

Are you ready? SURE???

Three hundred fifty (350) combinations of tenses and forms!! I bet you, only Arabic scholars, who know nothing in their lives but Arabic, would know such huge numbers!!

I thought this is good for a laugh. LOL

265 posted on 11/01/2007 4:23:49 PM PDT by melancholy (Beware of Ho Chi Minh's offspring, Ho She Marx , invading the WH.)
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To: melancholy

BUMP!


266 posted on 11/02/2007 8:55:18 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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