rishado
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- Comment on que 2 months ago:
It can be قمبو (gulf) or جمبو (Egypt) as well.
(For non Arabic speakers, hard G does not natively exist in Arabic and different dialects use a different letter to denote a hard G, a lot of the time contextually)
- Comment on I always order Popular Problem. 3 months ago:
Thank you for reading and enjoying! Yeah the great thing is that most of the ridiculous things in that menu have similar explanations, some are complete nonsense though
- Comment on I always order Popular Problem. 3 months ago:
Glad to be! Got that “why bother no one’s gonna read this anyway” feeling halfway through the comment but then remembered I wasn’t on reddit anymore
- Comment on I always order Popular Problem. 3 months ago:
No, I speak Arabic and it’s not so much misspelling as like, lack of sufficient punctuation. Then that is directly thrown into a translator. I’ll use the word مشكل as an example and try to explain why the menu says ‘Tuna is a problem’. As letters, from right to left, they are l:
m - م (the first letter on the right) sh - ش k - ك L - ل (last letter on the left)
I know those standalone letters look different but that’s how they are when they’re not conjoined to other letters.
Anyway the problem is that that word can be read multiple ways because a lot of the vowels in Arabic come from small modifiers that no one can be bothered to type out because we know how to infer the pronunciations in context. So let’s get into the conflation of the word here. Without any vowels, theoretically the word can be read as mshkl. One way to read the word مشكل can be MuSHaKKal, and with the modifiers it would look like so:
مُشَكْل
It’s not easy to see but the first 3 letters have modifiers that make them be pronounced as ‘Mu’, ‘Sha’, ‘K~’, ‘Al’. Pronouncing the word this way means ‘mixed’ i.e. the dish being served is Mixed Tuna AKA Tuna salad.
Now without the modifiers the word can be read as: مشكِل
Now theres no modifier on the second letter so it kind of just blends into the first, becoming pronounced as ‘Mush’, ‘Kill’, or ‘mash’, ‘kal’. This word literally translates to ‘problem’. And with if you just put a noun before problem, it makes sense grammatically to infer that the noun is the problem. Ergo,
“Tuna is a problem”. Also known as Tuna salad.
- Comment on VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture 4 months ago:
I think this is fucking awesome. Complete win for all of us hoping for better and more affordable EVs.
- Comment on Eurogamer readers' top 50 games of 2023 10 months ago:
It absolutely was close to top of the list. It’s basically between bg3, totk, and Alan Wake. All wildly different games and personally I enjoy mechanics focused games so fore totk was the top, sure I’m not the only one
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
A bunch of celeste (pico-8) ROM hacks, such great platforming
- Comment on Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Is Out, And It’s A Dumpster Fire 11 months ago:
Agreed but zombies make it too easy for shit writing to succeed. Zombies are slow, fast, smart, brainless, loud, quiet, strong, weak, all at the plot’s convenience.
- Comment on Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Is Out, And It’s A Dumpster Fire 11 months ago:
Zombie media is trash in general. If you’re a shit writer, zombies are for you. Not surprised when that’s the main selling point.
- Comment on Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users 11 months ago:
Don’t you guys use WhatsApp though as the base messaging app?
- Comment on 'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077' 11 months ago:
Then play elder scrolls? Witcher has never been anything close to what you’re describing
- Comment on Is it safe to use pans with peeling nonstick coating? 11 months ago:
In the pan itself sure, but there’s a lot of difference in the handle & weight between cheap and fancy though. All of my cheap ass nonsticks have had the plastic handles fall off before they start peeling
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression 11 months ago:
You realize this is a good product if you live with your parents? You don’t need to hog the TV. Living alone and buying this bullshit, now that’s a stupid decision.
- Comment on Sony’s PlayStation Portal gives a confusing first impression 11 months ago:
Ironically, it’d make more sense if you lived with mom and dad, you play ps5 while they watch whatever they watch all in the same room
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 11 months ago:
No other country offered unlimited texting back in the day.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
ICE is done in just a few years, by the time my current hybrid dies ICE won’t be sold
You’re delusional if you actually believe this.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
Honestly this is the first time on Lemmy I’ve felt like I was on reddit with such stupid argument logic.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
Then don’t complain that the steak is too expensive and eat your damn sausage.
- Comment on Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM 1 year ago:
…you buy ICE until affordable EV is a thing? Is that so bad?
- Comment on How do you get the dry boogers out if you don’t pick your nose? 1 year ago:
🤨
- Comment on Chad scraper 1 year ago:
Splash ftw
- Comment on Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority 1 year ago:
Isn’t this the same as when they raid wall st offices? They don’t take a swat team there afaik
- Comment on Nvidia offices raided by French competition authority 1 year ago:
Yeah a lot of idiots
- Comment on What do you think of framework and their methods? 1 year ago:
I get what you mean but that analogy doesn’t make sense
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 1 year ago:
Yeah I’m on an S8 and it’s been feeling like time to upgrade for a whiile now unfortunately. But it’s holding much better than you’d expect.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Jokester over here