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Many words in places influenced by Arabic (or other Semitic languages) take similar forms, in this case mu_a_i_d (een is plural). Arabic has a triliteral root system and this form …

I did, in fact. What do you mean?

six weeks ago I would have regarded the idea of doing this as inimical to the principles of free discourse and debate that I feel are fundamental to democracy and indeed to small-l…

This is a good idea, and one that I could certainly have used when learning Arabic— but its real utility is not for Modern Standard Arabic- it's for 'amiya/3amiya (spoken Arabic), …

I'm now in my mid-twenties and I've been coding on and off for about fifteen years. I started with Perl and C (now long since forgotten) and work mainly now in PHP. I work in proje…