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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by idlewords on Sunday August 21, 2011 @01:52PM (#2909719)
They have lots of grammatical rules! See http://arabic.desert-sky.net/g_tenses.html, for example.

Arabic speakers tend to diss their dialects and dismiss them as 'mere speech', but they're just as rich as any other language.

Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by Cyph0n on Sunday August 21, 2011 @03:38PM (#2910031)
Yes, but these rules are applied in a spoken form only, not to mention the fact that they are not studied, but are instead learned over time and in no fixed order.

Besides, nobody would write an article in Egyptian Arabic or any other dialect for that matter because it'd simply be a waste of time.