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  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    Arabic and related languages just seem to be inherently poetic in a way English just can't be

    • RedQuestionAsker2 [he/him, she/her]
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      7 months ago

      I don't know, if you read old letters even the casual correspondence is often really gorgeous.

      Maybe those are just the letters we keep, though

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Victorian writers indulged in purple prose even in their letters, yes, but Arabic transliterations tend to be metal as fuck