"Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu> wrote:In fact the "cannot" in "you cannot write the spoken form" is not a linguistic or orthographical issue but a social convention. There may have been social conventions in the ancient Near East as well, of course.
".... It is my
understanding of modern Arabic that spoken Arabic
differs mightily from the written. When two who
speak the same spoken Arabic dialect write letters
they still must use the written form, since
according to my informants, you cannot write the
spoken form. ...
...
Also, captions in cartoons etc can be written in the colloquial language.
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