Re: learning Arabic in the 17th century

Raymond Roy wrote:
> 
> Le Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:21:15 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
> <grammatim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> écrivit :
> 
> >Raymond Roy wrote:
> >
> >> Because I am very wary about Western sources. Most Western medias are
> >> not even able to re****t correctly on other Western realities (for
> >> instance on Quebec where I am from), let alone about radically
different
> >> cultures. If for instance the Spiegel re****t I just read in German on
> >> Quebec realities (which I know well) sounds false, why should the
> >> article next page on Jordan be right? I guess this applies to most
> >> medias.
> >
> >Magazine writers are hardly historians.
> >--
> 
> True, but yet, sadly, for 95% of people, magazines represent the sole
> source of information...
> 
> You mention 'magazine writers', 'magazine' probably meaning 'weeklies'
> or 'monthlies'. Imagine now 'dailies', written under extreme pressure...

You mentioned only Der Spiegel. That's a weekly, isn't it, like Time or
Newsweek?
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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]