العبار بريمة بلل، هل أنت أستعنت بمعلومات في كتابك الأخير دون الإشارة للمصدر؟

Quote: Baggara grandmothers gather their grandsons to tell them axioms, puzzles, anecdotes, mythical stories, and linguistic art of mastering difficult and confusing tonque’s twister words such as “Sheikhi salakh sag sheikh el sheikh” – which means: “my sheikh has slashed the leg of a sheikh who is a sheikh of someone called El Sheikh”. Quickly repeating such tonque twisters words for many times can easily identify a dyslexic boy. Baggara’s grandmothers are valued puzzlers; they use puzzles to sharpen their grandsons’ mental capacities – such as asking a question: “something hitting a grass without making a noise, what is it؟” the answer is – light. The grandmother goes on repeating the same question: “something hitting a grass without making a noise, what is it؟” The answer is – shade; the grandmother can go on until the kids exhaust all possibilities; possible answers can be night, day, smoke, smell, sound, etc. In his excellent accounts of Baggara axioms and sayings, Mohyeldin Khail Elrayah (2003) said, “Baggara puzzles are oxymoron”- a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. In the example cited above, hitting should always produces a noise since it implies applying force, but Baggara puzzlers choose not.