Re: more on Duali

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:28:37AM +0430, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> 
> > Are you saying you don't expect the Quran to pass a specll-checking test?
> 
> No, I don't expect Quran to pass that. For example, there are words in
> Koran that use a Seen where it should be a Sad only since in the original
> Koran collected by Uthman it was written that way. A small Sad is then 
> written above the letter to make sure it is pronounced Sad by the reader.

So it will require a little bit of accommodation. The point is, grammatically it
is no different from current RA (Regional Arabic), let alone MA (Mother Arabic).

In any case, I don't think that's a real problem (though not suitable for quick
tests since it needs to be adapted to the irregularities). 

later
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