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Note that in Arabic there are no vowels. Also note that it's not the common "good morning" (Sabah Al-khair), but a rarer term: one word, 6 letters, no vowels. T
by xlat32 9y ago
Note that in Arabic there are no vowels. Also note that it's not the common "good morning" (Sabah Al-khair), but a rarer term: one word, 6 letters, no vowels. The equivalent in english would be "gdmrng".
- Eyas 9y agoNo, seeing as there are no vowels in Arabic, the equivalent is not an English word with vowels, with the vowels removed. It is a shortened form though, and is equivalent to "Morning!"
- xlat32 9y agoArabic text has much higher entropy than English. The last two letters in the Arabic word he used (H M) is also the common suffix for "them". That's not strictly equivalent to simply "Morning!" in English. Maybe the translation algorithm confused "Yisbah-hum" (good morning) with "Yitbah-hum" (Kill them)?
- djrogers 9y agoThank you! all this reading, including the source article, and finally someone gives a likely source for the mistake.
- yorwba 9y agoAFAIK, spoken Arabic has vowels, but the script is an abjad with optional vowel markers. So English text written using only the consonants would be a good approximation.
- gotchange 9y agoActually, good morning صباح الخير has a strong vowel right there "ا" in the first word. One of the problems people face with learning Arabic is that weak vowels are implicit by nature and you need to know them by heart in order to read the words properly.