Re: E D S for Abdulaziz

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 02:53 am, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> Salam,

> Actually I like كنية ;-) Laqab now means more and more 'Family Name' which
> can create a confusion. Yeah, I know that originally it meant 'Nickname',
> but keep in mind that the language evolves.

Oops! Arabic language evolves in the sense of new words to cope with new 
terminology is correct but for the Arabic language evolving doesn't mean by 
any mean that what we studied in school regarding it's grammar can be 
changed. This a substantial difference between arabic and English. English 
grammar and rules can change but Arabic grammar can't. Fullstop.

> My 2c (I'll keep the arguing for QAC :-).

For QAC to live and do it's job properly, their work should not depend on what 
a certain Arabic community thinks about a word. You believe in something; I 
believe in another; we disagree; a thread about demogracy and detorine is 
opened; a split happens; ....  ;)  (I have finished my lecture, can I hear 
clapping? ;)

QAC should refer first to official rules that are well documented in Arabic 
Grammar/Tasreef/Quameese and follow this without questioning. If not found, 
then QAC can propose or RFC a rule.

Finally, I am happy with QAC, I count myself as a member though not an active 
member maybe. I think Youcef Rabah is a good person to guide QAC and he needs 
to hear from us all so let's help QAC form rules by discussions.

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