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It's more: does it distract from the story. Did the Arabic bring anything specific to the story? Did the plot change with removal? Does it influence anyone's mo
by viraptor 3y ago
It's more: does it distract from the story. Did the Arabic bring anything specific to the story? Did the plot change with removal? Does it influence anyone's motivation or story? Not really, so unless you want to double down for pure shock value - removing it makes sense. That's being practical about where the value of that book lies, but coddling.
Quick test: if the original didn't include them, would you notice and say "this story really lacks Arabic words to be great"? If not, it wasn't ever necessary.
- kragen 3y agoby those criteria the arabic should be left in: https://reactormag.com/the-muslimness-of-dune-a-close-reading-of-appendix-ii-the-religion-of-dune/ https://reactormag.com/the-muslimness-of-dune-a-close-readin... also, i find the idea that arabic, one of the world's five most spoken languages, has shock value, to be shocking. we aren't talking about a conlang invented by the manson family
- viraptor 3y agoArabic doesn't have shock value. Arabic in an invented future culture of religious fanatics taking over the universe has a bit of shock value. Doubling down to have more of it and emphasizing it because it's slightly controversial definitely has shock value.
- kragen 3y agoi see, thanks for clarifying. i can see how that does have shock value