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		<title>a response to &#8220;the cosmopolitan tongue&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/a-response-to-the-cosmopolitan-tongue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[language elitism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John McWhorter&#8217;s article &#8220;The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English&#8221; in World Affairs is a clear, cleverly written piece considering what the simultaneous growth of a global language and the death of many endangered languages imply, and what value preserving the vitality of such languages has. Nevertheless, in respect to the latter question, he leaves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=573&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weekly poetry #4</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/more-advice-of-zuhayr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weekly poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabic poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classical arabic literature]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spurn not the mildest man on Earth:
Who knows but someday you may need his aid?
Cloth of soft texture is of greater worth
than rougher stuff, when robes are to be made.
لا تَطَّرِح خامل الرجال فقد تَضْطَرّ يوماً الى ارادتِهِ
فاللينُ في البُرْدِ مُحْتَقَرٌ خيرٌ منَ اليُبسِ عند حاجتِهِ
- Baha&#8217; al-Din Zuhayr
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		<title>comments on a Libyan descriptive grammar</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/comments-on-a-libyan-descriptive-grammar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grammar books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libyan arabic]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Short Reference Grammar of Eastern Libyan Arabic (Jonathan Owens, Harrasowitz 1984) is lucid and thorough, giving many examples to explain grammatical constructions, and approaching Arabic grammar from a relatively unique point-of-view. In my opinion, it is an example of how to write a sensible grammar of spoken Arabic, written by a scholar who has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=551&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on mohammedans and conversion</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/on-mohammedans-and-conversion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[levantines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mohammedanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orientalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=541</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when you photocopy a journal article or book chapter, particularly when you&#8217;re scanning two facing pages of a book at once, you get the final page of the preceding article. This can&#8217;t be helped, but every now and then results in a lonely concluding paragraph of interesting material.
Yesterday, I photocopied a short article from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=541&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weekly poetry #3</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/lennemi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[weekly poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baudelaire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[french poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jeunesse]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ma jeunesse ne fut qu&#8217;un tenebreuse orage
Traversé ça et là par de brillants soleils
Le tonnerre et la pluie ont fait un tel ravage
Qu&#8217;il reste dans mon jardin bien peu de fruits vermeils
Voile que j&#8217;ai touché l&#8217;automne des idées
Et qu&#8217;il faut employer la pelle et les râteaux
Pour rassembler à neuf des terres inondées
Où l&#8217;eau creuse des [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=535&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weekly poetry #2</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/two-ghazals-of-baha-ed-din-zuhayr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Abu al-Fadl Baha&#8217; al-Din Zuhayr (1186-1258), was an Egyptian poet born in Mecca. He become famous for his ghazals (short, metered, rhyming couplets) and panegyrics (most of which failed to gain him political standing), often used colloquial spoken forms (referred to as Middle Arabic), and was also a calligrapher of note. He was once referred [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=486&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>weekly poetry #1</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/weekly-poetry-al-mutanabbi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Partly taking inspiration from my reading of Robert Irwin&#8217;s brilliant compilation Night &#38; Horses &#38; Desert: An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature and partly taking the idea from 3QuarksDaily and JEH Smith (with the added benefit of keeping me updating regularly), I&#8217;ve decided to start a weekly poetry post. The poetry (and not necessarily only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=488&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dym sassenach!</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/dym-sassenach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eloquence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opium-eating]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=465</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading Confessions of an Opium-Eater, I came across this hilarious passage describing a portion of the author&#8217;s stay in Welsh country as an adolescent. In it we see that the author (and probably other British folk of his educated class) considered Welsh to be a funny and unpronounceable language (on that matter, see the comedy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=465&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>17th century egyptian curses</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/17th-century-egyptian-curses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=391</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Returning again to the annals of the erudite Yusuf al-Maghribi&#8217;s cleverly-titled Dafʿ al-iṣr ʿan kalām ahl miṣr, we find recorded various curses and swear words used by Egyptians in the 17th century. There isn&#8217;t much analysis, just observation. Though al-Maghribi must have had an opinion on using swears/curses, he seems to have been mainly interested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=391&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the ill-considered release of Abd al-Baset Ali al-Megrahi</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/the-ill-considered-release-of-ali-al-megrahi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ali al-Megrahi, the lone person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombings, has been released early from a 27-year prison sentence and returned to Libya. Not only that, but he was given a celebration and accompanied by Saif al-Islam Qaddafi (the dictator&#8217;s own son). This has drawn criticism from both Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&blog=1152429&post=417&subd=dormirdebout&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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