Date: 	Sun, 7 Jul 1996 14:12:55 -1000
From: Gabrielle Welford <welford-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: Re: Ougarit (fwd)




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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 06:39:22 -1000
From: t byfield <tbyfield-AT-panix.com>
Reply-To: bad-AT-eng.hss.cmu.edu
To: Multiple recipients of <bad-AT-eng.hss.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Ougarit

At 4:37 PM +0200 on 7/7/96, esperanto wrote:

> Alors Jean-Claude est-ce qu'il s'agira d'une revue en langue fran=E7aise? Je
> demande =E7a tout simplement parce qu'il me semble bizarre qu'une revue qui va
> traiter de la culture palestinienne le fasse par moyen d'une langue
> colonialiste...

=09Would you say the same of Portuguese or Dutch? Both are, of course,
colonialist languages with about as much bearing on Palestine as French has
had.
=09Keep yer eyes peeled for _Arabesques_ (_Arabeskot_ when it was first
published [in Hebrew]) by Anton Shammas (a Palestinian Christian)--and for
any of the odd essays he's published here and there. He's got much to say,
and all of it smart, on the linguistic situation in whatever one would like
to call that section of the Mediterranean coast.

Ted






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