Both س and ص are transcribed as "s" — is this really a common convention?
There are two characters for t, h, s, d, th, and k.
The two characters for each are pronounced a bit different.
Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
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#22This seems to be the Egyptian dialect, not standard Arabic.
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#23This seems to be the Egyptian dialect, not standard Arabic.
That is correct, I should have been more specific
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#24I never touched a line of source code until after college. In college I studied history, focusing on the "Middle East" [1]. I took 3 years of Arabic in a (failed) attempt to use Arabic texts as primary sources in my thesis. Short story long, something about the highly structured and patterned nature of Arabic primed my mind for programming and made me more likely to enjoy programming. If you're looking for a pure int…
You might enjoy this blog post which (after a few paragraphs) is about a programming language structured around roots similarly to how Arabic is structured: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/03/31/ed-catmurs-tri...
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#25This is great. I might finally be able to understand the Egyptian shows.
My Arabic is terrible. In the first lesson I learned a new word!
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#26This is great. I might finally be able to understand the Egyptian shows. My Arabic is terrible. In the first lesson I learned a new word!
My Arabic is terrible also haha, part of my impetus for making the tool
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#27I’m of Lebanese heritage and grew up speaking, reading and writing Arabic but then moved to Australia and never looked back for over 20 years. I’m slowly losing my ability to speak Arabic so I make a point of doing so when speaking to my parents nowadays. I also really love that tools like this exist so I can refresh myself. It’s a very sad thing to lose one’s mother tongue.
I know it’s not the same dialect since it’s Egyptian but it’s easy enough to tell apart when I started reading. Still helpful!
Re: Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
#28I never touched a line of source code until after college. In college I studied history, focusing on the "Middle East" [1]. I took 3 years of Arabic in a (failed) attempt to use Arabic texts as primary sources in my thesis. Short story long, something about the highly structured and patterned nature of Arabic primed my mind for programming and made me more likely to enjoy programming. If you're looking for a pure int…
You might enjoy this blog post which (after a few paragraphs) is about a programming language structured around roots similarly to how Arabic is structured: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/03/31/ed-catmurs-tri...
The triliteral root system is exactly the thing about Arabic that fascinated me and probably primed me for programming. Thanks for sharing.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might enjoy this blog post which (after a few paragraphs) is about a programming language structured around roots similarly to how Arabic is structured: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2024/03/31/ed-catmurs-tri...
The triliteral root system is exactly the thing about Arabic that fascinated me and probably primed me for programming. Thanks for sharing.
I agree it's super great. Every word has a little cloud of associations to go with it.
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#30Just note this is not arabic, it's a dialect unfortunately.
All big enough languages have plenty of dialects.