<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/27 n.a. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nad@sirbe.com">nad@sirbe.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> Nad,<br>
> I got what you mean :-)<br>
> I'm not sure where are you from and how would others interpret that<br>
> sentence but in Arabia we do have certain cultural that we share<br>
> regardless of religious affairs.<br>
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</div>I'm a native Arabic speaker myself.<br>
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> On the other side you were talking about striping religious and local<br>
> cultural terms from translations and what you included in your example<br>
> wasn't a translate but a blog post and has nothing to do with<br>
> translation.<br>
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</div>My bad. But I don't see folks on any English speaking community<br>
(Ubuntu related)<br>
saying "God's willing" or referencing anything remotely religious on<br>
official pages,<br>
community boards or ubuntu hosted blogs. I'm trying not to get into<br>
splitting<br>
hair and getting out of topic since I'm sure we all understand the<br>
difference between<br>
Arabic as a language and using it for translation and 'Arabia' and its<br>
people, cultures,<br>
customs, norms, habits, religions ..etc.</blockquote><div>We use "
Arabic as a language" to translate documents (technical or others) for a "people" not for the pleasure of translating, and as you said, people has a cultures,
customs, norms, habits, religions ..etc. <br><br>PS: yesterday I was in discussion with some persons in another forums (<a href="http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1262404">http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1262404</a>) and there is someone who said in the beginning of his discussion "shalom" (the Jewish hello expression) and no one said "stop don't use religious words in a technical forums", this is a simple example that happened with me yesterday,and there is a thousands of examples in similar cases..so I don't know why only when MUSLIMS use religious expressions there is a problem and when others do (and they are always doing it) there is no problem!!!<br>
<br>Please stop this farce!!!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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> Finally, I would like to welcome you in our mailing list and we would<br>
> love it if you could introduce yourself, I'm sure we can work together<br>
> in many areas, we have couple of westerns who speaks Arabic and they<br>
> are giving some serious feedback.<br>
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</div>Thank you Jad. Not much to say about myself other than I'm no<br>
*westerner*,<br>
I'm as Arab as they come and I've spoken Arabic and other languages<br>
since<br>
I can remember.<br>
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Thanks again and best of luck friend,<br>
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~n<br>
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On Aug 26, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Jad/Hakam madi wrote:<br>
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> Nad,<br>
> I got what you mean :-)<br>
> I'm not sure where are you from and how would others interpret that<br>
> sentence but in Arabia we do have certain cultural that we share<br>
> regardless of religious affairs.<br>
><br>
> On the other side you were talking about striping religious and local<br>
> cultural terms from translations and what you included in your example<br>
> wasn't a translate but a blog post and has nothing to do with<br>
> translation.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, I do agree with you that technical translations should be away<br>
> from local cultural and religious terms which is the norm.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Finally, I would like to welcome you in our mailing list and we would<br>
> love it if you could introduce yourself, I'm sure we can work together<br>
> in many areas, we have couple of westerns who speaks Arabic and they<br>
> are giving some serious feedback.<br>
><br>
> Thank you<br>
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