Shajaa3ah
04-02-2005, 12:47 PM
"Even today — subjected as we are to the apotheosis of popular culture — using the Arabic language respectfully helps us maintain a sense of ourselves and our values. To do otherwise, to disregard the ways of our words, is to forsake our humanity and, perhaps, even forfeit our future. A society is generally as lax as its language. And in a society of this sort, easiness and mediocrity are much esteemed.
Along with the evolution of language — the thousands of neologisms that new technologies and new thinking have brought about, for instance — there has been a concurrent, if perhaps less recognizable, devolution of language. The Arabic language has become more precise for some users of it while becoming more plodding for others. Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language."
[Disclaimer: This was taken from The Vocabula Review (http://www.vocabula.com/). It has been kept the same, except every instance of the word 'English' has been replaced with the word 'Arabic' :)]
Along with the evolution of language — the thousands of neologisms that new technologies and new thinking have brought about, for instance — there has been a concurrent, if perhaps less recognizable, devolution of language. The Arabic language has become more precise for some users of it while becoming more plodding for others. Not a small part of this new cumbrousness is due to the loss of distinctions between words, the misuse of words, and other abuses of language."
[Disclaimer: This was taken from The Vocabula Review (http://www.vocabula.com/). It has been kept the same, except every instance of the word 'English' has been replaced with the word 'Arabic' :)]