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		<title>3an8arisi (Arabic English)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What in darnation is threeaneightarisi?  
Before I answer this question I would like to explain a few things, starting with another question.

What is a language?

&#8220;A language is a system of signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols that encode or decode information&#8221;
Examples:

English
Italian
Russian
Japanese
Spanish
German
Tagaloog
Arabic
&#8230;etc ..

They say there are 105 official languages in this world, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What in darnation is threeaneightarisi? <img src='http://www.blabbercamel.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif' alt=':?' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Before I answer this question I would like to explain a few things, starting with another question.</p>
<ul>
<li>What is a language?</li>
</ul>
<p><em>&#8220;A language is a system of signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols that encode or decode information&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<ol>
<li>English</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Tagaloog</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>&#8230;etc ..</li>
</ol>
<p>They say there are <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages" target="_blank">105</a> official languages in this world, and not counting the dialects and sub-dialects in each language <span style="font-style: italic">[did you know that Bulgarian is the only language in the world that doesn't have a dialect?!] </span></p>
<p>So what&#8217;s 3angarisi?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m getting to it don&#8217;t rush me&#8230;</p>
<p>Ok, we explained what is a language, and hinted that there are dialects in each language, so the next logical question is</p>
<ul>
<li>What is a dialect?</li>
</ul>
<p>A dialect is the modification of the sound/grammar of one or more words, or the use of a non standard/existant word to replace an existing word in the original language.</p>
<p>This is very easly seen in</p>
<p>Arabic (Saudi, Kuwaity, Emaraty, Bahreni, Masri, &#8230;.etc&#8230;)</p>
<p>The traditional word for the Saudi male costume is &#8220;Thobe&#8221;, in Kuwait they call it &#8220;Dishdasha&#8221;</p>
<p>English (British English, American English, Indian English, Eng<span style="font-weight: bold">R</span>ish, &#8230;etc..)</p>
<ul>
<li>Wait a minute!! what is Engrish?</li>
</ul>
<p>Hey, I thought you&#8217;d never ask&#8230; <a title="Wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engrish">Engrish</a> is a Pseudo dialect used by Japanese, it comes from the non existance of the &#8220;L&#8221; sound in the Japanese language which is replaced by the &#8220;R&#8221; sound, so London would be pronounced Rondon, calendar to carendar (the myth of changing the R&#8217;s back to L&#8217;s is a fake)</p>
<ul>
<li>So you mean some thing like this?</li>
</ul>
<p> <img id="image8" style="width: 363px; height: 396px" height="396" alt="Pharmacy situation" src="http://www.blabbercamel.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/pic17982.jpg" width="363" /></p>
<p>Not quite, but you get the idea <img src='http://www.blabbercamel.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>What I meant with this post is the use of the Latin characters (or numerals) to write Arabic words for example</p>
<p>Train :pronounced Quitar or qetar  <font size="4">قـطار </font></p>
<p>Some poeple would write it 8etar (with the number &#8220;8&#8243; ), meaning that some letters are substituted by numbers representing a specific sound</p>
<p>7 (ha) <font size="4">ح</font></p>
<p>&#8216;7 (kha) <font size="4">خ</font></p>
<p>8 (gha) <font size="4">ق</font></p>
<p>6 (ta) <font size="4">ط</font></p>
<p>&#8216;6 (tha) <font size="4">ظ</font></p>
<p>3 (ain) <font size="4">ع</font></p>
<p>&#8216;3 (gain) <font size="4">غ</font></p>
<p>Now seeing that there is no عـنـقـريزي who would like to write the rules for it?</p>
<p> <img src='http://www.blabbercamel.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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