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The second way of manipulating data is the selective choice of which [[Arabic]] grammatical forms are to be counted. Are just singular forms counted? Or also plural forms? Duals? Forms with or without prefix? And so on. By choosing different ways of counting, you get a lot of different results. Of course, those who claim there are "word repetition miracles in the Qur'an" will not tell you that they have chosen a specific way of counting words to get the desired result. | The second way of manipulating data is the selective choice of which [[Arabic]] grammatical forms are to be counted. Are just singular forms counted? Or also plural forms? Duals? Forms with or without prefix? And so on. By choosing different ways of counting, you get a lot of different results. Of course, those who claim there are "word repetition miracles in the Qur'an" will not tell you that they have chosen a specific way of counting words to get the desired result. | ||
The Arabic language has conjunctions as prefixes and possessive pronouns as suffixes. | The Arabic language has conjunctions as prefixes and [[Arabic pronouns and the Quran|possessive pronouns]] as suffixes. | ||
* For example the word "their day" (''yawmi'''him''''') is expressed by a single word in Arabic. And although it is just a simple word "day", apologists don't count this occurrence, only because in Arabic, the word "their" is suffixed. | * For example the word "their day" (''yawmi'''him''''') is expressed by a single word in Arabic. And although it is just a simple word "day", apologists don't count this occurrence, only because in Arabic, the word "their" is suffixed. | ||
* In contrast, the word "and a day" ('''''wa'''yawma'') has the "and" prefixed to the word day (''yawm'') and is counted. | * In contrast, the word "and a day" ('''''wa'''yawma'') has the "and" prefixed to the word day (''yawm'') and is counted. | ||