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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Prof_mu3allim@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

How does a campaign make a mistake like this?

From https://notarabic.com/

Edit: there seems to be some confusion about what is wrong with this, I guess we really need those Arabic lessons smh. See my comments or the link @MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net posted.

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[–] Prof_mu3allim@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The first Arabic word, for example, should look like this التصويت, but the software printed it from left to right and did not connect the letters, so it came out as ت ي و ص ت ل ا (without the spaces)

The Arabic script is written from right to left and in cursive.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

I might be wrong, but one advantage to being a language far from English is that AI and machine translation is much worse. Translator friends of mine from smaller countries seem less stressed about all of it.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there such a thing as non-cursive Arabic script?

[–] Prof_mu3allim@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Nope, cursive is the only way to write Arabic.