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A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior
@azforeman.bsky.social
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
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Examples of such signs include: use of pre-Khalilian meters (or else of genre-inappropriate meters like rajaz in a serious Qaṣīdah), words that make sense in context more based on inscriptions or dialect data than on Ibn Manẓūr, and even (on one occasion at least) different gender roles.
AZ
A. Z. Foreman: Serious Philology, Silly Behavior
@azforeman.bsky.social
Russian-American linguist, 1st amendment nerd, translator. Posts re: medieval literature, free speech, translation, poetry, & linguistic history of Arabic, English and other languages.
436 followers41 following519 posts