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Originally posted by TomP:
I'm told there are words for human relationships in Arabic that have not English translation.
This is some thing that appeared on another website that makes me curious:

When there is a general change of conditions,

It is as if the entire creation had changed

and the whole world been altered,

as if it were a new and repeated creation,

a world brought into existence anew.

- Ibn Khaldun

"General change of conditions" looks to me like a clumsy translation to English of something from Arabic?
Anybody with more knowledge than I, know this one?

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

quote:

Originally posted by TomP:
I'm told there are words for human relationships in Arabic that have not English translation.
This is some thing that appeared on another website that makes me curious:

When there is a general change of conditions,



It is as if the entire creation had changed

and the whole world been altered,

as if it were a new and repeated creation,

a world brought into existence anew.

- Ibn Khaldun

"General change of conditions" looks to me like a clumsy translation to English of something from Arabic?
Anybody with more knowledge than I, know this one?

He was talking about the world being entirely different before and after the Black Death, and the need to accurately chronicle the two different worlds.

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Originally posted by Grizzly Adams1:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:

quote:

Originally posted by TomP:
I'm told there are words for human relationships in Arabic that have not English translation.
This is some thing that appeared on another website that makes me curious:

When there is a general change of conditions,



It is as if the entire creation had changed

and the whole world been altered,

as if it were a new and repeated creation,

a world brought into existence anew.

- Ibn Khaldun

"General change of conditions" looks to me like a clumsy translation to English of something from Arabic?
Anybody with more knowledge than I, know this one?

He was talking about the world being entirely different before and after the Black Death, and the need to accurately chronicle the two different worlds.

We could be extrapolating that to covid as well.

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If COVID had resulted in MAGA running the world it would be comparable.