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Anonymous
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Again, if you wish to speak to filthy homeless people, you won't get far without knowing their dialect.
Everyone who most people wouldn't mind talking to, is cultured enough to know at least rudimentary MSA.
Think of it this way: MSA is to Arabic countries as English is to Europe. You're a dumb faggot if you don't know it.
Besides, while the dialects often aren't mutually comprehensible, they're more comparable to differences within a single subgroup of Indo-European languages (say, Germanic) than the differences across all Indo-European languages. For instance, Syrian and Palestinian would be like Norwegian and Swedish; Levantine and Egyptian like Dutch and German; Gulf Arabic and Moroccan like English and Icelandic.
On top of that, the dialects aren't ever used in writing (except in really stupid informal settings, like YouTube comments), and nearly everything is written in MSA.
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