(April 20, 2014 at 4:26 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Robert Spencer refers to it as 20% unintelligible...this because the original language was Syriac not Arabic and it doesn't work so well when you try to shoehorn it in.
Then maybe you don't know even how languages work ... because almost all languages have borrowed words from previous languages and then the words became incorporated them into their own by changing them around a little bit. For example, you know that the word "alcohol" is obviously an English word. But the word also has an Arabic origin, which comes from the root word al-kuhl, a powder used as an eyeliner. So in the same way, certain words in the Quran may have a Syro-Aramaic origin, but this doesn't mean that the words themselves are not Arabic or that the Quran is using words from other languages. The language of the Quran is, irrefutably, pure Arabic.
Muslim scholars are already aware that many of the words in the Quran are variations of words that are found in the Syriac and Aramaic languages. These words already became a part of the Arabic dictionary during that time, and again, this is a well-known phenomenon that has occurred in all the other languages as they gradually evolved over the course of time.
