Language
Emirati Arabic is a variety of Arabic used in the United Arab Emirates closely related to other Gulf Arabic dialects spoken in Arab countries of the Persian Gulf.
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“Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is
taboo’d by anxiety,
I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety;”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as possible to the spoken one. It is the style of all those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)