O Brave New World...

I like the Arabic alphabet better than the English (Latin, whatever) one. It feels more precise, and more consistent. Knowing how each letter connects to the next makes it harder than English, but then again they don't have capitals vs. lower-case and print vs. cursive, so in the end it evens out, I think. The grammar, though: ugh.

Also, Semitic languages just have more words, period, compared to English. I'm not an authority on this; you would know better than I do, but I've been told you can function in English with a vocabulary of 2,000 words, whereas in Arabic you need more like 5,000. Have you heard/read anything about that?