Archive for the ‘Arabic’ Category
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
For my Islamic Law class this past semester, I wrote a short essay about Muslim linguistic philosophy in light of modern linguistics. For some reason, I don't have the final draft, but I do have the first draft. I don't really want to go through and edit it, ...
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Saturday, June 2nd, 2007
Lameen on Farfur the Mouse.
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
My most recent assignment for historical linguistics was on analogical change. Part of the assignment required me to note examples of analogical change around me. Some of the examples I cited included things friends and I say. Well, mostly friends who are node-members say these:
· Succumb/succumbed/succumbed becoming ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Sorry, I've been busy. This semester is looking tough so far. However, I am learning some pretty nifty things. I look forward to relaying accquired knowledge to you in the near future. For now, let me discuss what I have been reading for structure of Arabic.
Triconsonantal ...
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
I read over a few Hadiths the other day. One in particular caught my eye. It was given in the context of after Friday prayer, when Muhammad got up to thank everyone for coming, etc. Here it is in Arabic and English:
و حدثني محمد بن رافع و ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Yeah, it's been a while, but it's also been a crazy while. In fact, it's been so long that I had forgotten that I had changed the layout to a WP theme. If there is anything you would like to see as per the layout of the blog, let ...
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Saturday, May 6th, 2006
I wasn't planning on writing an update today, but an article on Jabal al-Lughat caught my eye today. If you aren't familiar with the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, here is a brief description: there is a relationship between the grammatical categories of a language and the way native speaker of the ...
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
So, there are still a few little quirks to work out with the transfer. Some things are not lining up properly, but I can fix that in two minutes as soon as I have the will to do so. If you happened to be reading the blog last night between ...
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