واللغة مشكلة عويصة تعترض الكاتب الفنّي ، لأنّ الفرق عظيم جداً بين (ع) اللغة التي نكتب بها واللغة التي نتكلمها ؛

wa’l-luġaẗ muškilaẗ^un ʕawīṣaẗ^un taʕtariḍ^u ’l-kātib al-fannī, li-ʔanna ’l-farq^a ʕaẓīm^un ǧidd^an bayna ’l-luġaẗ allatī naktub^u bi-hā wa’l-luġaẗ allatī natakallamu-hā;

Language, that is to say, is a tricky problem that any serious writer has to face, because there is such a big difference between [p. xvi] the language we write in and the language we speak.

AR: luġaẗ, kātib, fannī (fann)
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