Timeline for Is there a relationship between Arabic ka'b and Greek kybos?
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| May 24, 2020 at 0:14 | comment | added | Bekim Bacaj | @ColinFine You are a liar. Twisting my words by attacking the "straw man" to make me look bad is a tactic of the lowest moral and education possible. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 15:51 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I see you have edited your answer to state what it did not state before, and so made half of my first comment pointless. It is polite to make it clear when you do that, either by commenting to that effect, or by noting in the answer that it has been edited. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 15:50 | comment | added | Colin Fine | So you are claiming that Arabic is "a scrap of phrases from every language you ever come in contact with"? That is nonsense. It is true that today Arabic is better described as a family of languages than a language, and that MSA could be described as a Koine (which doesn't prevent it from being a real language). But since Ka'ba has been in use in Arabic for a long time, this is irrelevant to the matter under discussion. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 13:19 | history | edited | Bekim Bacaj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | Bekim Bacaj | But it did. And that's not all; It also borrowed an unbelievable amount of medieval English too. To your question: "true language" means a genuine language, not a scrap of phrases from every language you ever come in contact with. Sprachbund is not a language. So this is where we come clear, finally, I believe. | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 13:04 | comment | added | Colin Fine | It is true that Ancient Greek could not borrow from Arabic, but there's no immediate reason why Arabic could not have borrowed it from Greek (I'm not saying it did, but it's possible). Your comments on Arabic are nonsense. What is "a real language" supposed to be? | |
| Nov 29, 2016 at 11:35 | history | edited | Bekim Bacaj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 29, 2016 at 11:19 | history | answered | Bekim Bacaj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |