Finally! I spent 3 years learning to read Arabic just to discover that there's nothing written in Arabic that I actually want to read! Ok, I'm exaggerating (a little), but it would be so nice to see the Arabic language carry it's weight on the Internet:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32053fac-3342-11de-8f1b-00144feabdc0.html
Honestly though, I don't know that young people really want to use Arabic on the Internet. For one, written Arabic is vastly different from spoken Arabic (as different as French and Spanish they say) and among the educated and hip, it’s just not cool. It doesn’t lend itself well to dialogue, it lacks a complete vocabulary for most technical fields (including computers, chemistry, medicine and economics) and most people who want to write professionally would rather publish in a European language so they can reach a wider audience.
Hopefully these new Google tools will help. Now if someone would just open an online bookstore that ships Arabic novels to the U.S., all my problems would be solved.
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Does it make you sad to know that I'm the only one listening, Brad Urani?
No, I basically write this for myself, but who is this?
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