Re: Arabic -- qawsitaliyya?
From: mb (azythos2_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/22/04
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Date: 22 Jun 2004 16:15:10 -0700
"Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote
> That's just a load of "rationalizing".
>
> It's a crummy system, evidenced by the trouble that even
> Arabic children have learning to read and write their own
> language.
How is that "trouble" greater than, say, the abysmal performance of
American children in a vowelled alphabet?
> The writing was frozen in time 1200 years or so ago and has not
> evolved as most language elements do to improve clarity in the
> contexts in which the language is used.
Vowel signs are routinely used when an an ambiguity is expected, even
in newsprint. After all, the primary purpose of writing for the native
speakers is surely not that of making life easy for foreign learners.
Those can still use elementary schoolbooks and vowelled special
publications.
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