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		<title>19th Century Libyan Wolves</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/19th-century-libyan-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Giuseppe Haimann&#8217;s Cirenaica (Tripolitania) published in 1886 is mostly a travel account, with extensive lists of eastern Libyan flora and fauna given in Latin without their Arabic equivalents, but may otherwise leave a clue about the Arabic dialect of the time: Fra gli abitanti delle città ed i beduini non esiste troppa simpatia ; i cittadini [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=724&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>les plus châtiés des arabes</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/les-plus-chaties-des-arabes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost every Arabic speaker will tell you that his or her dialect is the best, or the closest to the &#8216;eloquent Arabic Language&#8217;, the assumption being that the dialects are imperfect or degenerate forms of Classical Arabic. However, they are almost all wrong, because the Libyan dialect is actually the most eloquent and closest to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=628&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ngrams and the history of islam</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/ngrams-and-the-history-of-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s new Ngram Viewer allows you to compare frequencies of words or phrases in printed books (only in certain languages, for now) from essentially the beginning of the printed books era, until now. You can&#8217;t yet search in Arabic (do they have an Arabic corpus?). But you can, for example, learn that before about 1840, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=606&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>more to come</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/more-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[miscellaneous]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My MA thesis (and degree program) are finally finished! For the thesis, I researched connections (loans, calques, stylistic influences) between Sogdian and Avestan in the context of Zoroastrianism in Central Asia. The SOAS program was thoroughly enjoyable; also had the chance to sit in on the Historical Linguistics seminar of the newly PhD&#8217;ed Lameen. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=603&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>writing academic english</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/just-for-that-we-will-twice-as-severely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[academic incidentalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Reichelt, in the Preface of his Avesta Reader: texts, notes, glossary and index, Strassburg 1911: Finally I beg the reader not to criticize my English two severely. I have only written the book in English because I was specially requested to do so by the Parsees who do not understand German.&#8221; Ha. [update!] The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=594&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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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		<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&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=573&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>بهاء الدين زهير ٢</title>
		<link>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/more-advice-of-zuhayr/</link>
		<comments>http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/more-advice-of-zuhayr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kato</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arabic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weekly poetry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dormirdebout.wordpress.com/?p=566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; لا تَطَّرِح خامل الرجال فقد تَضْطَرّ يوماً الى ارادتِهِ فاللينُ في البُرْدِ مُحْتَقَرٌ خيرٌ منَ اليُبسِ عند حاجتِهِ &#160; 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. &#160; - [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=566&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[grammar books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libyan arabic]]></category>

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		<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&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=551&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
				<category><![CDATA[academic incidentalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[orientalism]]></category>
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		<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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dormirdebout.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=541&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>الشاعر بهاء الدين زهير</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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		<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&amp;blog=1152429&amp;post=486&amp;subd=dormirdebout&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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