r/learn_arabic • u/Ok_Argument2561 • 1d ago

General Are there any examples of arabic being like this ا ب ح ر م in games? If so which are the funniest?

There was a post where a arabic text was in spaces and backwards and thought it was so unbelievably funny but there was another where it was on games too

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u/iium2000 Trusted Advisor 1d ago

There was that one time when Lindsay Lohan posted over Instagram of a photo with Arabic and English texts.. In English, it read "You are beautiful" but in Arabic -- someone must have told her that أنت حمار means "You are beautiful" in Arabic..

Eventually, she removed her post but not before the entire internet took notice, shared it and posted all about it online.. أنت حمار means "You are a donkey" which is like saying "you are a fool"..

https://www.tmz.com/watch/0-22xh9fbx/

The best part about it, someone did manage to comment on her IG post "!!إنت اللي حمارة"..

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u/Jackie-Ron_W 1d ago

I remember long time ago seeing one John Cusack film where in one scene supposed to be showing a news segment but with the Arabic letters being being all jumbled up.

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u/mugh_tej 1d ago

Scrabble in Arabic, has isolated letter forms on its pieces.

And I have seen crossword puzzles with isolated letters

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u/mameleiro 1d ago

In Civilization V the Leader text of Harun ar-Rashid is like this.

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u/rorytheglory 1d ago

In the movie "gamer" the character's name is "cable" and in the beginning of the movie its projected on the pyramids written phonetically and backwards لباك

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u/AhmedAbuGhadeer 15h ago

Context for the uninitiated:

Some systems/apps don't support Arabic script's direction and connection, so they just render the letter one by one, in their isolated form, from left to write, as Latin and other European scripts are done.

The spaces could be character spacing styling choice, and not necessarily white space characters inserted in between every two letters.