The Yellow Page

Description : The story is about Hanbka who was always mispronouncing the Arabic words and using wrong grammar. His mistakes were going to get him killed when he was mistaken for killing a man's son. So, Hanbka asked a linguist to write him a summarized condensed version of all the linguistic rules in one yellow paper. He tought that he can take a shortcut into being fluent and he failed to do that, so the people continued to make fun of him.

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Keywords : Children literature, Our Beautiful Language, Kalila and Demna, Ibn al-Muqaffa', the yellow page, language, non-sense, summarized, condensed.

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: Grammar Stories

Coverage : The story is about the yellow paper which contained a summaried version of the linguistic rules of Arabic

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2000

E-Format : 19 pages in Arabic