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Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

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ungrammatical is not the same as unintelligible

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So should we speak without regard to proper grammar.
So we should speak without regard to proper grammar.

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اللهجة الخليجية

Not that I have anything against that dialect, but why use words from it while typing in MSA in a thread about Egypt?

telal · Joined:Sat 18 Apr 2009 8:48 pm Posts:91

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Neqitan · Joined:Fri 17 Apr 2009 9:59 pm Posts:397 Location: Canada

Talib wrote:

No, it's actually ungrammatical. You said "the language she is free."

It's ungrammatical here, but this way of topicalization is actually really common when introducing descriptions. For example, the article on علم at Arabic wikipedia starts with:

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العِلْـمُ، هو كل نوع من المعارف أو التطبيقات.

"The science, he (is) every kind of knowledge or applications."

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85

Here it there's a comma although there often isn't any.