How does a campaign make a mistake like this?
Edit: there seems to be some confusion about what is wrong with this, I guess we really need those Arabic lessons smh. See my comments or the link @MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net posted.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Ignorant question, but is the font bad or is it just a bad Google translate?
The font is bad, the letters don't join where they should, and it's written back to front.
Tbh I wouldn't complain about the font, feels like nitpicking to me.
The thing is Arabic is never written non-cursively. The equivalent for English would be if there was a space between every single letter.
Yes ofc, it's kinda funny that you are telling me this lol. I am here to teach you Arabic people! /jk comrade
Complaining about the font being bad is like complaining because someone used Times New Roman. Any Arabic font is cursive, otherwise it's not an Arabic font.
You are back, professor! When can we start learning Arabic again?
I never actually left, I just use my regular account :D We'll start tomorrow, if not today. And I'll make sure to ping you
Are there modules that we can go through?
I might be interested in learning some of the broad word structure, tenses, essential prepositions and conjunctions, and other "first 1000 words" stuff. I don't have the time or mental energy for daily tutoring though.
wheres the school prof, I've been meaning to learn arabics for some time now
That is what I like to hear! We'll probably start tomorrow, and I'll make sure to ping you.
The first Arabic word, for example, should look like this التصويت, but the software printed it from left to right and did not connect the letters, so it came out as ت ي و ص ت ل ا (without the spaces)
The Arabic script is written from right to left and in cursive.
I might be wrong, but one advantage to being a language far from English is that AI and machine translation is much worse. Translator friends of mine from smaller countries seem less stressed about all of it.
Is there such a thing as non-cursive Arabic script?
Nope, cursive is the only way to write Arabic.
I don't speak Arabic but I figured from two of the lines ending in lam-alif (al- backwards) that what had probably happened is that the whole thing is written backwards
I think it's what happens when you have RTL text that gets copied or stored, character for character, and then pasted into a LTR format.
It's misconstrued macaroni art.
I'm not arguing with you, as I have no fucking clue about any of this. But some human dude must have done this. It must have been meaningful text at some point in the pipeline.
edit: sorry I'm caffeinated af and a bit aggressive.
Is this your third cup?
I'm ignorant about this as well, but the site the op links says this:
So it sounds like pasting actual Arabic text into a context that does not fully support it might cause this