Al-Rafi’i says: “What is the language of the people,
And did not descend, but was ordered in the go and do
From this, the colonized foreigner imposed his language on the colonial nation,
And feel their greatness,
For their part,
He will judge them three times in one work:
As for the former, their language was kept in their language as a perpetual prison
As for the second, the judgment over their past by murder is obliterated and forgotten
As for the third, they restrict their future in the chains that he makes for them
He then ordered them to “
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The story began 8 years ago
I was a university student in the third year,
He asked me to look for a certain disease
I resorted to a friend bigger than me and gave me articles and research
“If you want to expand, look for the Internet
But I advise you not to look in Arabic because you will not find anything
Search in English “
Why in English?
I can not find anything?
It is an old disease, and certainly there are articles about him
Also there is an equivalent in English!
I went home and I was looking
Indeed, I found nothing but some articles distributed in forums
I had to look in English, then translate and present it
The next day, I continued to think about the subject
There may not be much information in Arabic about this particular disease
I have to look again
I looked at Google and found that the first results of the scientific research it
From a site called Wikipedia
I entered him and felt that I found what I wanted
Wikipedia contains about 295 languages
Its main page has about 10 basic languages
Including Arabic
Which means that they recognize Arabic as a basic and universal language
I looked at the numbers written below any language
I found in Arabic about 500,000 articles
In English, there is 5437962
– Do not be sure the accuracy of the figure here I do not save it –
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I said to myself: “Quantum does not matter much
Perhaps the most important quality “
If you enter on any of the articles,
There are 40 pages in English
But in contrast in Arabic, in which there are about 3 to 4 lines
Well, it got good ..
Why not start working on this topic?
Indeed, I caught both calculators and calculated what time I needed
To translate these articles
Since I like writing on the computer to replace bad written
I love Arabic and I know English very well
I entered and began calculating the calculators
I found that if I wanted to translate all these articles
I do not need more than 900 years
900 years old!
Regardless of any grandson I will own then
But 5 million articles will not remain the same, may become 200 million
In the end we have 5 million Arabic articles
I said to myself Mali and that’s the trouble!
Do I understand economics, engineering, mathematics, etc.?
I will do what I see is related to my specialization
I will work in relation to medicine and pharmacy
I caught the calculator again and found that I needed about 80 years
80 years behind the computer all day with the possibility of back pain
Or the need for glasses as I do now
I tried to think a little bit about the subject again
So why not?
Why is there no interest in Arabic?
Did not we believe that English is the basic language imposed on all sciences?
If we go back a little bit back
It was found in a period of time from the Abbasid period
The movement that has a lot to do with translation has spread
At that time, the Arabs translated everything that came into their hands
Articles, research, legends, novels .. anything
Regardless of its true content was wrong or mother,
But in the end they translated it
Translate it so that they can discuss it, to build on it
Or to criticize it.
This may be part of our problem now
Today, anyone in college wants to do a research
He needs to look for sources of information
But unfortunately only available in English
Here he needs to learn a second language
It will take a lot of time
Apart from all this, man can not
To be aware of the written word in a second language just as he is aware of his mother tongue
Even if anyone works in this area
In the other, articles and research published,
They are originally published in English and preserved in that language
We find no counterpart in Arabic.
Frankly, we need to move this global scientific repository
From English to other languages
Just as the Germans are taking it to German
As the Japanese convey to Japanese
As –
Can anyone read what is written on the screen?
Well, can anyone understand this language?
Did you pass with you?
This is the language of Cebuanu
Seabuano is a language spoken by about 20 million people
They live in the easternmost part of the continent in the Philippines
However, on the Wikipedia site, for example, in this language
4 million articles, the second most powerful language in publishing after English
So is it true that we do not have the means and the ability to support the dissemination of Arabic content?
I told myself “I have to start from myself
I must move to support this issue “
Why not start this movement?
I have already communicated with my friends at university and Facebook groups
We began to work on the subject of translation
When we started, we faced a fundamental problem
In a group of Syrians, Egyptians and Moroccans
There was disagreement over some terms
How do we translate (bacteria)?
Do you keep bacteria (bacteria)?
Mother (living beings)?
How do we translate, for example, “metabolism”?
Metabolism or biological representation or what?
It is possible that Arabic can not help us build new terms
In the arabic language?
When the English needed to build new terms
Their language did not really help them
They then resorted to two things:
First, they resorted to Latin
Because they are better able to sculpt and derive from the Arabic language
Second, they resorted to something related to the abbreviations
To extract new words so that they are easier to trade
What do you think if I tell you today that there is disease in the world?
35 million people were injured
2 million people die every year
I loved to call this disease (AIDS disease)?
Or to name the virus it causes?
for example
The subject may be strange to us a little
Perhaps some of us are laughing
I do not know if the English are laughing now or not
But to this day they use the word “AIDS”
Which are abbreviated to the initials of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
The word “aids” in normal daily use means “aids”
They honestly did not find any problem in using the word
Which they saw as having a certain meaning in another field to express something else
We find this thing weak
Or do not like it
We may need to believe more
That the possibilities exist in the language we speak
Make it one of the most powerful languages in the world
Here we really need a certified reference –
By the way, in France is called AIDS (SIDA)
This is because the order of words in their language is different
We need a certified reference
Referred to the translators or researchers regarding terminology in Arabic
Frankly, the so-called unified medical dictionary was created
I do not know if there is anything similar in other areas
Such as the economy or so on
But he did not take his right to spread
Perhaps because we do not yet believe that these Arabic words can be used
We need support to disseminate this information and articles
Whether they are new research or translated from other languages
We do not underestimate the need for this scientific content to exist
It will save effort and time to a lot of researchers
We need efforts by associations or institutions
But it must start at the beginning of ourselves
Because ..
Our efforts will greatly reduce this gap
In the end, I would like to remind you
If one of you likes to translate these articles alone
Since he alone needs at least 80 years
A quarter of an hour went by during the discussion.
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