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This example of writing on cars was found parked for weeks outside the Boys’ Dorm Gate at AUB. It has since been covered with less vulgar World Cup images.
It certainly fits within the kind of masculine bravura of the sort described by Erica’s 3OUMOUMI project http://ericaengl229.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/3oumoumi-a-journey-on-the-red-plated-cars-of-lebanon/ Is the driver referring to other drivers as a “jacka**” and just misspelling jt, or is there something else I am missing?
This is the Zaatar w Zeit menu in Amman. Other than the fact that the title of the restaurant itself is an example of languages in contact, the menu itself provides an interesting view onto the topic. In seems that, in order to maintain the theme of the restaurant, the menu is written using primarily the Arabic words for the dishes, and the small descriptions below use the English words. For example, Aarouss Labneh is in Arabic, but the description "traditional creamy yogurt" is in English.
This picture is currently circulating on facebook among Jordanians, because apparently the man who plays the well-known character "Mr. Bean", aka Rowan Atkinson, visited Jordan. The funny thing is that his character has become so well-known that the caption uses his character name instead of his actual name, saying, "Mr. Bean visits Petra!" with Mr. Bean written using Arabic letters.
This is one of my favorite translations-gone-wrong. Since the word leaves can have two meanings (it can either refer to the part of a plant, or it can mean the present tense of the verb leave), the translator must have mixed up between the two definitions and the result is that the translation uses the Arabic equivalent of the verb "to leave".
Club sandwich, hot dog, peanut butter, crab, etc, can all be fairly translated into Arabic, but whoever wrote this menu preferred to keep the English pronunciation and write them in Arabic.
If you translate the word "hotel" into Arabic on Google translate, the first result you get is فندق, but the word أوتيل also appears down the list although it is not officially an actual Arabic word. It only appears because of how widely the word "hotel" has been used among Arabic speakers that it finally became an unofficial Arabic word itself.
Using English letters and numbers (arabeezy) to accurately display the equivalent of the Arabic store name.
Boucherie is originally a French word, while Halal is originally Arabic.
