44 points | by wglb 2 days ago ago
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Paper at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2... from Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
The writing style (in Arabic) feels like a message in a chat. It's a mix between dialect and official Arabic.
Like, modern and understandable? I ask because English from more than a few hundred years ago is basically gibberish so I’m curious about languages where that didn’t happen.
That was interesting, notwithstanding the editorialising comments by Tomasz Barański.
Paper at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2... from Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
The writing style (in Arabic) feels like a message in a chat. It's a mix between dialect and official Arabic.
Like, modern and understandable? I ask because English from more than a few hundred years ago is basically gibberish so I’m curious about languages where that didn’t happen.
That was interesting, notwithstanding the editorialising comments by Tomasz Barański.