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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The number of new books published in Arabic is much smaller than those published in languages that are are far less widespread.

Arabic is stuck on the Quran including the cultures that speak it.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Intellectual stagnation fueled by poverty, authoritarianism and colonialism is what you're thinking of.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

So. The US? Lmao

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Other poor and colonized countries don’t have that issue. Large powers of the Muslim world were not meaningfully colonized or for long. Of course if you include the Ottoman Empire, sure.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I have a lot I could say about this, but first where are you getting your numbers?