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'We can read Arabic too!' US embassy tells Egypt's Brotherhood (Tweets diff in Arabic & English)
Ahram Online ^
| September 13
| Staff
Posted on 09/13/2012 8:31:20 AM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: annieokie
You got to be kidding? How big is that keyboard to be able to get every CHICKEN SCRATCH emblem on it. According to Wikipedia there are only 28 letters plus a few marks for their vowels. It gets complicated because each letter has multiple forms based on where it is in the word and what it connects to, but I guess those doesn't have to be on the keyboard.
Chinese, on the other hand, is a keyboard nightmare.
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:43:43 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("Government is the only thing that we all belong to"=implicit repeal of the 13th amendment for all.)
To: ExGeeEye
OMG, that’s for real. Mohammad’s chicken scratch. What do they do for SHORTHAND?
To: Revolting cat!
I guess the source of the illustration might make a difference.
Various images
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:54:31 AM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Wait a minute! Romney doesn't suck? I'm trying to keep up.)
To: PghBaldy
Good God. Can we please ban Foreign Embassy staff from using Twitter?
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:56:44 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
To: PghBaldy
Muslims are so easily manipulated we may see the next war started via Twitter.
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:57:54 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(The most transparent administration ever is clear as mud.)
To: ExGeeEye; annieokie
And isn’t Arabic written, or at least read, backwards to English, as well as American English?
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posted on
09/13/2012 12:45:13 PM PDT
by
ro_dreaming
(G.K. Chesterton, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It’s been found hard and lef)
To: ro_dreaming
Yes, like Hebrew. Oddly, Arabic numbers higher than 9 are read left-to-right, so that if you recognize the different shape of individual numerals, it’s not such a mental twist to read large Arabic numbers. (My personal theory is, that is because “Arabic” numbers and mathematics are actually Hindic (? as distinct from Hindu, the religion) in origin.
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posted on
09/13/2012 2:01:37 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(Wait a minute! Romney doesn't suck? I'm trying to keep up.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
09/13/2012 2:53:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: PghBaldy
Jimmy Carter does the same thing to this day.
He will say one thing in english and then under the guise of saying it again in spanish, actually say somethin totally unrelated and america bashing in spanish.
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posted on
09/13/2012 2:56:42 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: longtermmemmory
Thank you for the info. I did not know this.
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:25:19 PM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(I am sick of Obama's and Hillary's apologies to muslims, especially after 11 September 2012.)
To: livius
Does Obama actually speak Arabic?His teleprompter is multilingual- that's all he needs.
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posted on
09/13/2012 10:41:18 PM PDT
by
piasa
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