{"id":807,"date":"2026-05-01T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:36:56","slug":"on-language-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/on-language-7\/","title":{"rendered":"On language #7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Arabic ahlan wa sahlan (\u0627\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0648 \u0633\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b) and &#8220;welcome&#8221; are both used as greetings to guests but &#8220;ahlan wa sahlan&#8221; seems deeper and more meaningfull. The same holds for \u0644\u0627 which is deeper than the British &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0627\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0648 \u0633\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b literally means something like: &#8220;among family and in ease.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arabic ahlan wa sahlan (\u0627\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0648 \u0633\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b) and &#8220;welcome&#8221; are both used as greetings to guests but &#8220;ahlan wa sahlan&#8221; seems deeper and more meaningfull. The same holds for \u0644\u0627 which is deeper than the British &#8220;no.&#8221; Edit: \u0627\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0648 \u0633\u0647\u0644\u0627\u064b literally means something like: &#8220;among family and in ease.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,101],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-arabic","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}