▲ 145 ▼ I always order Popular Problem. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [M] to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 30 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) I assume they're fun silly names in Arabic too? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) no, I'm not an Arab but i can read a little bit and from what i can read they're just regular dishes. the auto translator went crazy with interpretations though. part of the problem is Arabic script doesn't really have vowels; they have diacritics* instead but they're rarely used (either for disambiguation or in the Quran to minimize the possibility of misreading the holy text). so imagine reading English without vowels: y cn prbbl tll frm cntxt wht ths mns but it would be hard for a machine to decipher it. these words can easily be: yea cone probable tall farm context wheat these mines once you misinterpret one word, its relation to the other words make them more likely to be misinterpreted as well. e:sp permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) no, I'm not an Arab but i can read a little bit and from what i can read they're just regular dishes. the auto translator went crazy with interpretations though. part of the problem is Arabic script doesn't really have vowels; they have diacritics* instead but they're rarely used (either for disambiguation or in the Quran to minimize the possibility of misreading the holy text). so imagine reading English without vowels: y cn prbbl tll frm cntxt wht ths mns but it would be hard for a machine to decipher it. these words can easily be: yea cone probable tall farm context wheat these mines once you misinterpret one word, its relation to the other words make them more likely to be misinterpreted as well. e:sp permalink fedilink source parent