Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s a disaster

Re:Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s... by Banana699 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:55PM (#29269037)

I think your familiarity with the Latin script is coloring your perceptions a bit, I'm an arab and when I was a child I used to classify French, Italian and all languages that use Latin letters as 'English'. Growing up is not what made me realize this is wrong, it's learning English. It's very easy to imagine the other way around.

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Re:Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s... by 908B64B197 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:32PM (#29269404)

> I was a child I used to classify French, Italian and all languages that use Latin letters as 'English'.

These three have a lot of words in common. French-English share something like 30% of their respective vocabulary on top of an other 30% they both inherited from Latin. So, you were almost right!

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Re:Facebook is bad at moderating in English. In Arabic, it’s... by megaman821 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @03:35PM (#29270167)

If you are going to write about a topic, perhaps you should have a better understanding of it and its related issues than a child would.

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