Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Chain of emails to brainstorm interruptions in Arabic


rula's email attachment!
From Rula Yaghmour sent on Thu 4/23/2009 1:33 PM


Mais, Munir and Friends,
Sorry for not sending this earlier but I have a bad relationship with emails, and it took a while for us to meet! Munir was faster than us and its only fair to share with him from now and on all our brainstorming sessions :)
I have attached a page of interruptions I was thinking on (I have the bad habit of writing on books and publications I have, sorry sedki :). I love توقُّف , it s easy to relate it to the word interruptions, this was hard to achieve with most of the words we came up with..
I tried to play with the ‘sound’ of the word interruptions, to start with ‘أن ‘ and to add a "ت" to other verbs, I found out that the letter "ت" added to a verb can regenerate and revive the word in beautiful ways..Anyways, from the list attached I like"ان تعّثر" I think it relates to banana edition as well, and its beautiful that the word تعّثر comes from عثر .. the relation between the two interesting , since we tend to find things when we slip and trip. I like "ان تقّلب " as well..
Munir it was great pleasure meeting you, the walk was a beautiful - توقّف - , looking forward to doing it again next time you visit us :)
See you today Mais and frieds and let me know what you think…
Rula

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Mais <mais@almoultaqa.com> wrote:
Hi Munir & My friends :)
I miss you too…. How’s Carmen? Until you come I should try to make ALL my friends join us for the walk… now I’m brainwashing those who didn’t come to the walk :P!!
Guys, I'm copying you on an email Munir sent… below…
It's an interesting suggestion…. Rula had plenty of interesting suggestions as well…. Not sure when she will reveal her findings but she's working on a very interesting concept…. Linguistically!
Rula I encourage you to reply to this email to tell us your choices… lets brainstorm online… (how horrible is that after having to brainstorm in open air was the beginning, but yet we welcome interruptions! )
Precious Munir, I don’t want you to get very jealous, but we’re meeting today for coffee at 6:30 , and we’ll plan a morning walk through the weekend hopefully….. it’s so unfortunate that you will not be with us….
Hugs,
Mais
-----Original Message-----From: Munir Fasheh [mailto:mfasheh@yahoo.com]Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 12:52 AMTo: 'Mais Irqsusi'Subject: name for interruptions in arabic
dearest Mais
Personal lines deleted
when I get back to amman, we should again walk and talk with your friends
I kept thinking of a name in Arabic for interruptions... the word that I thought captures the spirit of the publication is tawaqquf
توقُّف
what do you think? what do the others think?
until soon
love
munir


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