Hi everybody. This message is to let you know that I changed my stance on imperative use and changed my vote on the wiki page accordingly.
My former arguments were all about that imperative form might not feel natural to users of other Arabized software, and that if something is not broken, don't fix it. I have been using the latest gnome translation for a week now and I am telling you.. imperative form now feels natural and very normal. Granted, at the beginning there was some disorientation.. but it went away in a few hours of use. Now, I even feel that infinitive is just... um... wrong! The only argument that still holds is that Arabic imperative form, when written, is kinda weird because of the elimination of vowels "harf al 'illa" due to the "gazm" of the imperative verb. Sorry, infinitive people, I have crossed to the other side! P.S. We should have a wiki page explaining rules of deriving the imperative form of verbs and other grammatical rules of Fus-ha Arabic, or at least some links to sites that do. Have a nice day Ahmad Farghal, Evolution Translator Email/Google talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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