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Date: 3 Apr 2024 03:25:59 GMT
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:02:07 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:

> Arabic is fundamentally different from Persian. Arabic cannot create new
> single words. It does it by using two or more existing words instead of
> a single new word. This is its shortcoming. But in a pinch, its power as
> well.

I may have mentioned the film 'A Separation'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation

At one point the daughter uses an Arabic word and the father corrects her. 
'We are Persians. The word is ....'

Despite all the awards I don't think the film was widely shown in the US. 
Foreign language films seldom are but this one might not fit the narrative 
of evil Iran. 
> 
> In Persian (and all Indo-European languages), you can _correctly_ create
> new single words by combining different roots. But it takes time for the
> new word to get popular. So it is, just like Arabic, its power as well
> as its shortcoming.

German makes that into an art form. 'Fernsehzeitschrift' is only the 
beginning.