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« previous post | next post » Those familiar with our history of "No word for X" posts will appreciate Haider Ala Hamoudi 's essay " The Dangers of Pop Linguistics: Arab Bluffs and Arab Compromise ", posted at Islamic Law in Our Times , 3/6/2012. Some useful background is provided by Geoff Nunberg's Fresh Air commentary " Meetings of the minds ", 5/29/2003, which discusses the original claim that Arabic has no word for compromise .
