On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 03:51:47PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: > On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:44:30 -0600, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Kashida > > Not to dwell on this, but the term 'kashida' is about the ugliest > monstrosity to be forced upon the Arabic or Farsi language: it's not real > Arabic, it's not real Farsi. 'Tatweel' is much preferred, and is a real > word. I hope that we can collectively work to eradicate this > contriviality from the face of the earth...
Well, it is the word that used in all calligraphy books I've read, and used by all calligrapher I met. Though Tatweel is an Arabic word, I don't recall hearing any calligrapher using it. I'm not against Tatweel though, but not as if Kashida is word of some devil origins :) Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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