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_samihasan_
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Comment #13201639
The problem with this system, besides the appearance and inherent ambiguity to name a few, is that it doesn't cover essential parts of the language like "stress" and "tonality" whe…
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Comment #13201625
I prefer to write Tim Hortons like this "تِم هُرتُنز" in Arabic but that's just me.
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Comment #13201618
Well, I must say that I fail to see the rationale of this argument as I speak other European languages and I haven't encountered this problem before. The mental process goes like t…
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Comment #13201535
The comparison of Arabic with Russian is not sound as Arabic is written with diacritics which in and of itself is a big plus if you're a native speaker or an experienced one but no…
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Comment #13201516
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I might disagree with your characterization that the problem I'm addressing here as a non-problem as writing systems are there for a reason an…
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Comment #13201348
That's right in abstract but in the context of poetry, the case ending can change arbitrarily and rules are bent to serve the medium, and that's what exactly Shakira did in this so…
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Comment #13200997
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the concern of this substituting the Arabic script, I addressed this in the intro section of the project where I laid it out plain a…
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Comment #13200931
Well, "أهلاً بكم" which means "Welcome" for second person plural in English is transliterated into "Eskéndereyya" as "ählan bekom". Note the umlaut mark on the letter "a" as it's a…
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Comment #13200894
Yes. In MSA, it's "Iskandar" and in Egyptian Arabic it's "Eskandar".
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Comment #13200884
Just a minor correction, "Eskéndereyya" is Alexandria in Egyptian Arabic not MSA. In MSA, it's "al Iskándareyya" using this writing system rules.
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Comment #13070084
I agree with you completely and I even developed an open -source writing system called Eskéndereyya [1] to help learners of Arabic in reading and pronunciation and to prepare them …
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Comment #13070041
Her pronunciation of Arabic is off a little bit. She just crammed the Semitic sounds in a few made up words sparkled by some real Arabic words and that's it but she should have bee…
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Comment #12966378
Hi, Have you completed the whole guide? Eskéndereyya doesn't only support MSA but other regional derivative languages/dialects like Egyptian and Syrian Arabic. Also, it would be a …
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Comment #12966325
If they manage to reach 99% translation accuracy of German texts, I say they achieved a very remarkable feat. I know that Modern Standard Arabic is not supported yet with the NML s…
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Comment #12964240
https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya I developed "Eskéndereyya", a comprehensive writing system of Arabic in Latin alphabet to help Arabic learners esp. beginners to improve t…
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Comment #12963352
Hi Nadya, Thanks for your feedback. I am not really familiar with romanization schemes of the Japanese language. So, I can't really comment on the specific point you raised but I'm…
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Comment #12963068
Hi, This is Sami. I developed this comprehensive writing system of Arabic in Latin alphabet to help Arabic learners esp. beginners to improve their reading and writing skills in Ar…
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Comment #12957257
Governments too should be proactive if they really care about the safety, security and privacy of their citizenry and start enacting laws and regulations that protect the rights of…
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Comment #12957166
Hi dang, I hope that this is not inappropriate but I'm just wondering if you could disable the ghosting of the submission of my GitHub repo here github dot com slash samihasan slas…
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Comment #12957161
Hi dang, I hope that this is not inappropriate but I'm just wondering if you could disable the ghosting of the submission of my GitHub repo here github[.]com[/]samihasan[/]eskender…
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Comment #12957075
Hi dang, I hope that this is not inappropriate but I'm just wondering if you could disable the ghosting of the submission of my GitHub repo here https://github.com/samihasan/eskend…
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Comment #12952544
I'm wondering why doesn't the US implement a system like "Two-round system" as a part of electoral reforms because as I see it the current system in place is not fair for the elect…