Diglossia and our dear Jospeh

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Apr 9, 2010 at 19:29

Our dear Jospeh wrote

>The reason we have no Arabic writing pre-400 CE

But wait we also did not have many other languages back then that we have now so what is your point?

> is because the Arab race per se is recent.

Hello: Did you ever hear of the Arabs of Herodotus or did Hedodotus make this up? and did you ever hear of the Arabs of the Periplus? and are you aware that significant Arab communities lived in the area of what is known as al-hilal al-khaseeb from time immorial? Let me gueess: Conspiracy theory also right?

Listen I have no like for the imperialism of the Arabs or for islam but we always have to tell the truth

And if you are Egyptian then did you read any books by Milad Hanna? If not then this would be a good start

And I'm curious: Do you know what is really diglossia? Let me guess you have no clue right?

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