How does a campaign make a mistake like this?

From https://notarabic.com/

Edit: there seems to be some confusion about what is wrong with this, I guess we really need those Arabic lessons smh. See my comments or the link @MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net posted.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Ignorant question, but is the font bad or is it just a bad Google translate?

        • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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          2 days ago

          The thing is Arabic is never written non-cursively. The equivalent for English would be if there was a space between every single letter.

          • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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            2 days ago

            Yes ofc, it's kinda funny that you are telling me this lol. I am here to teach you Arabic people! /jk comrade heart-sickle

            Complaining about the font being bad is like complaining because someone used Times New Roman. Any Arabic font is cursive, otherwise it's not an Arabic font.

              • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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                2 days ago

                I never actually left, I just use my regular account :D We'll start tomorrow, if not today. And I'll make sure to ping you catgirl-salute

                • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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                  1 day ago

                  Are there modules that we can go through?

                  I might be interested in learning some of the broad word structure, tenses, essential prepositions and conjunctions, and other "first 1000 words" stuff. I don't have the time or mental energy for daily tutoring though.

              • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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                2 days ago

                I've been meaning to learn arabics for some time now

                That is what I like to hear! We'll probably start tomorrow, and I'll make sure to ping you.

    • Prof_mu3allim [comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      The first Arabic word, for example, should look like this التصويت, but the software printed it from left to right and did not connect the letters, so it came out as ت ي و ص ت ل ا (without the spaces)

      The Arabic script is written from right to left and in cursive.

      • ButtBidet [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        I might be wrong, but one advantage to being a language far from English is that AI and machine translation is much worse. Translator friends of mine from smaller countries seem less stressed about all of it.

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      2 days ago

      I don't speak Arabic but I figured from two of the lines ending in lam-alif (al- backwards) that what had probably happened is that the whole thing is written backwards

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        1 day ago

        I think it's what happens when you have RTL text that gets copied or stored, character for character, and then pasted into a LTR format.

      • ButtBidet [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        I'm not arguing with you, as I have no fucking clue about any of this. But some human dude must have done this. It must have been meaningful text at some point in the pipeline.

        edit: sorry I'm caffeinated af and a bit aggressive.

        • KimJongGoku [comrade/them]
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          2 days ago

          I'm ignorant about this as well, but the site the op links says this:

          What is happening? Computers are designed to handle the subset of the Latin script required to manipulate American English first and foremost. Every other writing system is an afterthought, and Arabic is particularly poorly served. Most of the images in this archive are the result of non-Arab graphic designers pasting Arabic text into mainstream graphic design software that cannot handle anything but Latin characters and not checking with a native speaker.

          So it sounds like pasting actual Arabic text into a context that does not fully support it might cause this