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لغتنا للأسف لا تزال بدوية تلتزم الخيام، وتقنع بالعيش في الوبر، وتحلم بالغيبيات.
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The speaker criticizes the language as stuck in an old, tent-based way of life. “Clings to tents” and “content to live in hair tents” extend the same image, suggesting limitation and reluctance to move beyond inherited forms. “Dreams of the unseen” adds a focus on things beyond direct experience, rather than the tangible world.
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