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The underlying pearl الدرّ الكامن | Yamen Salkini | TEDxMimasStreet


Translator: Aya AlAjjan checker: Hamzeh Koumakli
Rafii says: “What is the language of the people has been humiliated but humiliation,
It not degenerated, but was ordered to go and the disappearing
From this, foreign language imposes colonial power imposed on the colonized nation,
And it makes them feel greatness,
And Estelhakhm For its part,
They are condemned them three provisions in one action:
The first, Vhabs their native language in prison for life
The second The judgment on their past death and obliteration by mistake
The third, Vtakiad their future in shackles which are made by them
Then, he ordered them from his command “
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The story began eight years ago
I was a university student in the third year,
And he asked me to search for a particular disease
He resorted to a greater friend to me and gave me articles and research
Lee said: “If you want to expand Feltbges online
But I advise you not to look in the Arabic language because you will not find anything
Search in English “
Why English?
I find something not rational?
It is as old disease, and certainly the presence of his Oraiba articles
There is also a peer in the English language!
I returned home and I am looking
Indeed, I did not find anything but some of the articles in the forums distributed
I had to look in English and then translate it and the oldest
The next day, I continued to think about the subject
Maybe there are not many information in Arabic for this particular disease
I should look again
Looked at Google and found that the first results of scientific research on it
From a site called Wikipedia
I came to him, and I felt that I found what I want
Wikipedia site contains about 295 languages
At the main about his 10 basic languages
Including Arabic
Which means that they recognize the Arabic language as a basic and universal
I looked at the numbers written down any language
I found in Arabic about 500 thousand articles
In English, there is 5437962
– not sure of 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 any of the articles,
Find in one of 40 pages in English
But on the other hand, in Arabic, in which approximately 3 to 4 lines
Well, I got the best ..
I did not start work regarding this topic?
Indeed, I caught that I took the calculator and figured out what I need time
To translate these articles
Since I love writing on the computer was replaced by ill-written
I like the Arabic language and know English well
I entered and began to reckon balti calculators
I found that if I wanted to translate all these articles
I do not need more than 900 years
900 years!
Regardless of any grandson Somlleke then
But 5 million articles will not remain the same, it may become 200 million
In the end, we have 5 million Arab article
I said to myself Mali and Malhma it!
Do you understand economics, engineering, mathematics and others?
I will see him as a link Pt_khassa
I will work, including his relationship with medicine and pharmacy
I caught the calculator again and found that I need about 80 years
80 years behind the computer all day with the risk of pain in the back
Or the need for glasses as I do now
I tried to think again a little topic
So did it?
There is no interest in Arabic?
Did we believed that English is the primary language imposed on all science?
If you subject a little bit back
I found that in the period of time from the Abbasid stage
Spread the movement that have to do a lot of translation
At that time, the Arabs translated all arrived in their hands
Articles, Research, legends, novels .. nothing
Regardless of their content was true or false,
But eventually translate them
Translate them so that they can discuss, in order to build them
Or to Enqduha.
This may be part of our problem in which we live now
Today, any person at the university wants to conduct the search
It needs to be looking for sources of information
But it is available only in English, unfortunately,
We are here need to learn a second language
And it will take him much time
Regardless of all, can not human
Be aware of the words that are written in a second language just as their mother tongue keep this in mind
Even if the work of any person in this area
In the other, the articles and research are published,
It is published originally in English and are preserved in that language
We do not find her counterpart in Arabic.
Frankly, we need to work on the transfer of this global scientific inventory
From English into other languages
Just as it transmitted by the Germans to German
As it transmitted by the Japanese to Japanese
As –
Is any one of you can read what is written on the screen?
Well, one of you understand Would this language?
Did you pass?
This language Cebuano
The language is the language of Cebuano tells them about twenty million people
And live full east of the continent in the Philippines
However, there is on the site Wikipedia, for example, and this language
4 million article, which is the second most powerful language in the English language after publishing
So rational we do not have the capabilities and the ability even support the dissemination of Arabic content?
I said to myself, “I must start from the self
Should I move to support the subject “
We did not start this movement?
Indeed, I continued with my friends at the university and Facebook groups
We started working with the subject of translation
When we started already, we have encountered a fundamental problem
In one group, which includes Syrians, Egyptians and Moroccans
There is a dispute on some of the terms
How do you translate (bacteria)?
Do you stay (bacteria) or translate them (germs)?
Or (living organisms)?
And how to translate, for example, (metabolism)?
Metabolism or dynamic representation or what?
Rational Arabic language can not help us to build new terms
In the arabic language?
When you need the British to build new terms
It did not help them in their language actually
And then resorted to two things:
The first thing, resorted to Latin
Because they are better able to sculpture and derivation of the Arabic language
The second thing, they resorted to something that has to do with shortcuts
In order to take out new words so that they are easier to trade
What do you think if I tell you today that there is a disease in the world
It infected 35 million people
And dying of 2 million people annually
And I liked to call this disease (aid) disease?
Or to call the virus that caused (V.n.m.b)?
for example
Thread may be a little strange for us
Perhaps some of us laughing
I do not know if the English laugh now or not
But today to use the word (AIDS)
Which is an acronym for the first letters of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
And the word (AIDS) in the normal daily use means (aid)
Frankly, I did not find any problem to use the word
Which they have a particular meaning in the field until another express something else
We find this thing weak
Or do not like
We may need to believe more
That the possibilities that exist in the language in which we tell them
Make it one of the most powerful languages ​​in the world
Here we need to actually certified – reference
By the way, in France, it called AIDS (SIDA)
This is because the order of the words in their language is different
We need a certified reference
Due to translators or researchers regarding the terminology in Arabic
And frankly, it was created so-called unified medical dictionary a
I do not know whether there is something similar to other areas
Or to such as the economy there
But he did not take the right to deploy
Maybe because we do not believe that after these can be used Arabic words
We need support for the dissemination of this information and articles
Whether new research or translated from other languages
We do not underestimate the need for this scientific content resides
Because it will save time and effort on a lot of researchers
We need efforts may be undertaken by associations or institutions
But it must start at the beginning of ourselves
Because ..
Our efforts will ease much of this gap
In the end, I would like to remind you
If any of you like to translate these articles alone
Since it alone, it needs at least 80 years
He has gone them a quarter of an hour by attending this debate.
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