How do you say

Replies: 8 - Last Post: Mar 3, 2013 7:17 AM Last Post By: bjd

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VinnyD

Mar 2, 2013 12:16 PM
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How do you say

No smoking in Arabic?

Diesel fuel in Arabic?

Answer here.

VinnyD

Mar 2, 2013 12:17 PM
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I should acknowledge languagehat.com for leading me to that.

NorthAmerican

Mar 2, 2013 1:32 PM
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They couldn't even spell Arabic correctly!

palindroma

Mar 2, 2013 3:46 PM
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That is really funny, thanks for sharing.

Captain_Courageous

Mar 3, 2013 12:22 AM
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That's really funny, Vinny. A good find. On a whim, I sent to find no smoking and diesel fuel in Arabic.

No smoking - ممنوع التدخين

Diesel fuel - أ. وقود الديزل

bjd

Mar 3, 2013 1:49 AM
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I notice the last word in the article is "fail" used as a noun. That is the third time I have noticed that recently. So what happened to "failure"? when did "fail" become a noun to replace "mistake" or "error"?

I know language evolves, but it just doesn't look right to me.

VinnyD

Mar 3, 2013 7:05 AM
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