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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

وحتّى نوفّق بين الفنّ واللغة ارتأينا أنْ تكتب المحادثات الثنائية بلغة عربية متوسّطة خالية من التراكيب اللغوية ،

wa-ḥattà nuwaffiq^a bayna ’l-fann wa’l-luġaẗ irtaʔaynā ʔan tuktab^a ’l-muḥādaṯāt al-ṯunāʔiyyaẗ bi-luġaẗ ʕarabiyyaẗ mutawassiṭaẗ ḫāliyaẗ min al-tarākīb al-luġawiyyaẗ,

We are of the opinion that in order to reconcile art and language, the dialogues should be written in an intermediate Arabic that is free from complex linguistic structures

AR: waffaqa (tawfīq), fann, luġaẗ, irtaʔà (raʔy), muḥādaṯaẗ ṯunāʔiyyaẗ, luġaẗ ʕarabiyyaẗ mutawassiṭaẗ
EN: reconcile art and language, intermediate Arabic

وقد يتخللها أحيانا بعض ألفاظ عامّية حتّى لا يظهر عليها شيء من الجمود أو التكلّف ،

wa-qad yataḫallalu-hā ʔaḥyān^an baʕḍ ʔalfāẓ ʕāmmiyyaẗ ḥattà lā yaẓhar^a ʕalay-hā šayʔ^un min al-ǧumūd ʔaw al-takalluf,

and into which occasionally even some dialect words may be blended so that it does not give the feeling of stiffness and artificiality

AR: ʕāmmiyyaẗ, ǧumūd, takalluf
EN: …

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