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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Actually he's asking for a jumbo (large) mouse, funny cause in Arabic you literally read that as 'jombo'

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think gumbo would be spelled as either "كمبو" or "غمبو" instead of the "ج" with the sound "sha" or "dya" depending on dialect.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I'd have to ask my teacher but given that it's a smoke shop I think the guy is asking if the seller has any Jumbo Cigars?

    The fact that its a ج and not a غ makes me doubt it's supposed to be a G approximate.

    Edit: needed to borrow some extra pixels from the neighbor to spot that the customer is a cat, stand by Jumbo instead of Gumbo though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    that's the translation of the Arabic part

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