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by chakkop 4421 days ago
A nice effort, but it is jarring to see a simple word misspelled (twice) in the Arabic text in the headline image, a result of which is that instead of 'Print' the text says 'Follow' (specifically: instead of "Ittba'", with a hard 't' sound, which means 'Print', the text says "Itba'", with a soft 't' sound, which means 'Follow'; these two different 't' sounds are represented by two different letters in the Arabic language).

This type of oversight makes the work instantly less relatable (and credible) to Arabs.

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You're right, I actually didn't notice that at first. It is weird that Ramsey made a mistake like that, I happen to know the guy(we met when he used to live here) and he does speak Arabic pretty well. He's not like someone with Arab roots who just decided to do a project like that, it's actually a language he speaks.

So yeah, weird.