For Susan and Arabic dialects and Harrak is no Arab! Wannabe Arab? Yes.

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 9, 2007 at 07:24

Hi Susan

I have a bit more time to reply to what you wrote:

Egyptian Arabic is the gold standard of spoken modern Arabic because of the fact that Egypt is the power house of the movies, theater, writings, songs, education etc... in the entire Arab world. And the egyptian dialect is very different from other arabic dialects. Arabs in general with the exception of the Egyptians use standard modern classical Arabic when speaking in Public.

Egyptians even the clergy start a speech in modern classical Arabic and then switch to Egyptian Arabic which is full of non-Arabic words (Coptic, Greek, etc...) and very different syntax and strange garmmar. I suppose old civilizations are not conjured away and not by the arabs and islam for sure. Egyptians expect the rest of the arab world to understand their dialect but most Egyptians have no clue about other arabic dialects. So A Tunisian will understand the Egyptian dialect but not the other way around.

So I think that thas Arab woman was a liar.

As for Harark: No his is not an Arab and for sure he is not from Morroco. But again he lives in his little fantasy world.

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