Mere childing trifles.

Submitted by Amin Riaz (United Kingdom), Jul 15, 2011 at 00:09

As I remember you still do not know what brand agency is ........ ha ha ha - have you got a clue yet. Thanks for asking but its survived the economic hit - but reviving its head.

Considering I asked you first to use either proper Transliteration or Arabic [which you obviously do not know how to use] - its childish and silly to pretend otherwise.

qalu: " ina lahm al-khanzeer ahsan lahma."

I do not find this all that clear or accurate- which key did you use?

[ fi3l wa al-fa3l wa al-maf3ul] These words are in a different style - but is more accurate, I know it too.

It is far better to simply write in Arabic - most accurate. Plus it lacks i'rab - although you do not need to put and are commonly not used in MSA but it would show whether you know something about Arabic - or another copy paste job.

The sentence I read as:

قالوا ان لحم الحنزير احسن لحم

قالوا - فعل ماضي معروف - صيغة جمع مزكر غائب - و ضمير مرفوع متصل فاعل - و الجملة - ان لحم الحنزير احسن لحم - مفعول

لكنه مفعول بعد مزيد من التركيب و هو - ان حرف مضاف - الحنزير مضاف اليه - مضاف و مضاف اليه اسم ان - احسن اسم تفضيل و مضاف - لحم مضاف اليه - مضاف و مضاف اليه هو خبر ان - ان مع الاسمها مع ال خبرها جملة اسمية خبرية. كما قلت سابقا هو مفعول

There you go complete syntactical analysis of the sentence in Arabic as I have written it out in Arabic from your English. Pretty comprehensive - though could have gone into قالوا being a weak verb etc but of course too much!

You dont need me to translate it OBVIOUSLY :-)

Asking me about verb, subject and object is even WORSE. Especially as you do not even know what is a subject of a verb.

It was a spectacular mistake. Calling "these two magicians" as subjects. Which is so basic - it clearly shows you do not know Arabic.

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For accuracy - I did not learn Classical Arabic (or most of it) from London or Saudi uni's but MSA. They dont teach you syntactical analysis and etc ....

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