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Thanks. I wasn't aware that there's such a difference between Palestinian and Egyptian dialects (though I knew that Levantine Arabic is different from that in Gulf or northwest Africa.) I suppose, al-Hout, as a journalist, had good mastery of the literary Arabic, while the Arafat's background was in engineering - hence the talk about "grammar".
– Roger V.
Commented Jun 6 at 4:42
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Accent is not grammar. The quote explicitly mentions grammar, so this cannot be the full answer.
– reinierpost
Commented Jun 6 at 8:28
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@reinierrpost We'd have to ask al-Hout what he meant to resolve this or find another source, but I suspect you're interpreting a single word (presumably translated from Arabic) too literally.
– Brian Z
Commented Jun 6 at 11:04
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Agree with @reinierpost. Hard g vs. soft j seems also quite unrelated to the vowel marks mentioned in OP's quote.
– Jan
Commented Jun 6 at 12:16

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