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Re:Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s... by naturalauction on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:04PM (#29268463)
Pashto, Dari, Italian, and English are all Indo-European languages. Arabic is not. In other words Afghan languages are closer to English than they are to Arabic.
Re:Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s... by Banana699 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:01PM (#29269109)
You're conflating two fundamentally different notions of similarity. The similarity among the Indo-European languages are extremely deep linguistic and structural similarities only appreciated by people who study languages and their history for a living, and known by people who are interested in languages and read about them.

The similarity between same-script languages is a superficial geometric symmetry that can be seen by anyone with functioning eyes. Most people are in the second category while not being in the first.