| Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I might disagree with your characterization that the problem I'm addressing here as a non-problem as writing systems are there for a reason and so is mine. Eskéndereyya doesn't tackle the problem of Arabic letters memorization as this is a very simple problem to crack. It instead addresses pronunciation and reading and to a lesser degree writing as you may know that the common way to write and serve text in Arabic is without diacritics, and for this reason, it becomes hard for beginners to practice and improve their skills without aid and this is where I envisioned Eskéndereyya to fill the gap. I'm not sure what you're trying to convey with the part of accents in your comment. Are you referring to Arabic regional dialects/languages? Re complexity, doing nothing will always be less costly that doing something in terms of energy and effort but this point of view overlooks the gains or return expected on the energy expended, and if the return turns out to greater than the costs, the endeavor is determined to be profitable and vice versa. So, you may think that this layer of complexity is unnecessary but I will take your word "sa7" as an example to prove how I think otherwise. "sa7" is "صح" in colloquial Arabic but it's still ambiguous and confusing as the letter "s" in Arabizi can mean both "س" or "ص" depending on context but when the word is transliterated as "šaħ", the ambiguity disappears with no room to error. You might counter and say that there's no "سح" in Arabic but there actually is but it's less common since it's slang but featured in a well-known old Egyptian folk song titled "essaħ eddaħ embú السح الدح امبو" To summarize, there's always a trade-off and it's up to you to decide which you to go. |