Are you like a boomer that can’t understand you’re not talking to the same person with every comment? You know lemmy is the whole forum, not a user you’re replying to right?

And yet, you pay for her priviledge

??? dude who you talking to?

“needlessly facetious comment from when I was in a bad mood edited to this”

I think the overlap of tech literacy and nostalgia for a 90s/00s tv feel is quite small. You found your niche though my man, good work.

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G approximate varies upon regional dialect (annoying, I know first hand as a multinational Arab)

It can be قمبو (gulf) or جمبو (Egypt) as well.

(For non Arabic speakers, hard G does not natively exist in Arabic and different dialects use a different letter to denote a hard G, a lot of the time contextually)

Actually he’s asking for a jumbo (large) mouse, funny cause in Arabic you literally read that as ‘jombo’

No plans only rant

Thank you for reading and enjoying! Yeah the great thing is that most of the ridiculous things in that menu have similar explanations, some are complete nonsense though

Glad to be! Got that “why bother no one’s gonna read this anyway” feeling halfway through the comment but then remembered I wasn’t on reddit anymore

No, I speak Arabic and it’s not so much misspelling as like, lack of sufficient punctuation. Then that is directly thrown into a translator. I’ll use the word مشكل as an example and try to explain why the menu says ‘Tuna is a problem’. As letters, from right to left, they are l:

m - م (the first letter on the right)

sh - ش

k - ك

L - ل (last letter on the left)

I know those standalone letters look different but that’s how they are when they’re not conjoined to other letters.

Anyway the problem is that that word can be read multiple ways because a lot of the vowels in Arabic come from small modifiers that no one can be bothered to type out because we know how to infer the pronunciations in context. So let’s get into the conflation of the word here. Without any vowels, theoretically the word can be read as mshkl. One way to read the word مشكل can be MuSHaKKal, and with the modifiers it would look like so:

مُشَكْل

It’s not easy to see but the first 3 letters have modifiers that make them be pronounced as ‘Mu’, ‘Sha’, ‘K~’, ‘Al’. Pronouncing the word this way means ‘mixed’ i.e. the dish being served is Mixed Tuna AKA Tuna salad.

Now without the modifiers the word can be read as: مشكِل

Now theres no modifier on the second letter so it kind of just blends into the first, becoming pronounced as ‘Mush’, ‘Kill’, or ‘mash’, ‘kal’. This word literally translates to ‘problem’. And if you just put a noun before problem, it makes sense grammatically to infer that the noun is the problem. Ergo,

“Tuna is a problem”. Also known as Tuna salad.

I literally keep Google lens open on my hand at the Japanese supermarket. So fucking helpful in the soy sauce aisle and in general. I actually know what I’m buying!

If it’s still available in December message me and I’ll mail you a bag when I go.

Upvoted because of bad/unpopular opinion, don’t agree at all.

Hobbies don’t become obsolete dummy

Indie music is a thing

I honestly don’t understand these small keyboards like let me buy this dope mechanical keyboard so I can use the mouse to do simple shit like copy and paste

Looks gorgeous though