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Re:Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egypt... by csomar on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @08:27AM (#2165397)
Arabic has variants. Each Arabic country speaks a different variant, many words are changed. For example, in Tunisia, a good number of our daily used words are from French.

But that language is only used in public; books and newspapers uses the original language.

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Re:Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egypt... by JonnieCache on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @04:37PM (#2167528)
You mean like english? And all languages?
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Re:Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egypt... by csomar on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @05:10PM (#2167661)
No, for English and French (the one I know), someone who understands the original language, can figure out most of the spoken language. However, for the variant of Arabic they can fail. My mother told me that in Kuwait native sellers turn to the original Arabic in order to be understood.
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