Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 37mI did أعبر a whole lot of سبل lately but the water was attached to a hose and I didn't want to get diarrhea so I just went home 000
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 1hoh, there's no way I could win this consistently with only one clue 010
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 2hNot fictional? What genre do you mean, then? I'm really interested in this type of thing too; I wonder if it falls under "content analysis" but I'm not sure either. 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 2hWAIT P.S. The airport announcements have this neutral, vanilla flavor BUT the Islamic prayer (دعاء) before a plane takes off is always in more of an Arabian accent </body> </document> 020
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 2hLatifa Alquwaiz has some work—that's gotten very little attention btw—that surveys some regional differences in pronunciation of emphatics using data from a corpus created at York to study intonation (by Sam Hellmuth IIRC) and there are big differences </rant> 220
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 2hI know this is mainly in the selection of teachers and presenters but I suspect it could even come up in audio processing where it is certainly possible to weaken ع 🤷♂️ 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 2hThis is audible in the recorded announcements in Dubai Airport (for instance) where the Arabic is made to sound like a European language somehow. IIRC it is a Lebanese accent which is considered a little more "region-neutral" than Egyptian (if I can say it that way) 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hBut accent aside, I do have a real concern that Arabs are under pressure to weaken their accent (especially ع) in public or bilingual spaces, and thus we end up with this media that does not sound like anyone I know from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi, or UAE 120
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hAdditionally, I can hear two seconds of any of this media and know that the speaker is, at the very least, not from this part of Arabia. Emphatics including ر are pronounced so weakly that at first I thought I was listening to Indonesian ... + 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hThis comes up in the national anthem in the word بلادي. I looked it up and good recordings have it correct, but British teachers must pronounce it wrong (with front, or even slightly raised alif) 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hBecause Egypt is a media powerhouse, uncritical teachers often share the alphabet song made in *Egyptian* Modern Standard Arabic. But the song if not somehow dialect-neutral, and it is not Emirati or Khaleeji. 130
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hI guess one of my biggest annoyances is that kids are trained to pronounce alif as front or back according to the preceding consonants. So باء and صاد have different vowels. But for Khaleejis these are not so dramatically different ... in fact, in Qatar, *both* get a back vowel. 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hI was translating to Emirati Arabic as we went along ... رأس = راس كتفان = كتفين؟ ركبتان = ركبتين؟ أذنان = إذون، أذاني، ذنين عينان = عيون أنف = خشم قدمان = رجول 020
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hHe's just doing the required classes, yeah. Super basic. It's not like we're investing a bunch of time into it or getting lessons. I was going to post more about it, but it's really frustrating, a lot of the learning material is Egyptified or Classical, and even the national anthem sounds Egyptian 120
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 3hWe listened to my son's Arabic songs from school, and the Arabic was so cringe that I didn't know it was Arabic. 260
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 5hI don't know who this is and have no interest in finding out, but which one is violent? The staffer, or the girlfriend? 🤔 010
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 5hIt turns out you do not sweat like a leaky faucet, or need to carry 3 L, when the heat index is 80 instead of 95 100
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 5hDistance: 10 Time: 2 something? or maybe 1 something? Pace: 11 Tomorrow: Double this but with hills 😳 I guess this is what I do now. Shout out to the guy in the polo with no gear who passed me on mile 7, on a dark road, several miles from any neighborhood. #shjsatruns 110
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 7hI got this one! The third one was something I've read about a little bit. Not so much the first. #pastpuzzle en-601 🟩🟥🟥🟥 (-264) 🟩🟩🟩🟥 (+2) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) ▪️▪️▪️▪️ 3/4 🥉 www.pastpuzzle.compastpuzzle.comPast Puzzle – Daily History GameGuess the year from 4 historical events. A game inspired by Wordle and history. A new puzzle every day, free to play. 310
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 13hNever mind the fact that they did not correctly execute a "challenge" as you would in tournament Scrabble ... I just thought this was really funny. Like the ghostwriter must suppose that the Hebrew alphabet is a piece of deep, unknowable lore. 040
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 13hSo, Mr. Beast and James Patterson "wrote" a book called The Most Dangerous Games, and one of the games in the book is a life-or-death game of Scrabble against a computer where the mind-blowing move is the word "QOPH". 140
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 14hstatic.klipy.comNathan Fillion: Oh... Wait... No WordsAlt: Nathan Fillion: Oh... Wait... No Words 010
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 14hGoots would still be on the east side of the US. San Diego or Seattle would be more than twice that distance 230
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 14hI haven't been there, but, it has a very solid name 👍 en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tupeloen.wiktionary.orgtupelo - Wiktionary, the free dictionary 010
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 15hwell, it matters here in the UAE because sharing "sensitive" media in WhatsApp groups (i.e. about the war, or whatever) falls under the umbrella of recent legislation about museuse of social media 😬 120
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 15hwe got toons of old ladies exercising but we do not know subject-verb agreement; that will take a few more decades 020
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 20hoh, the other versions say "YOU WILL BE UNRECOGNIZABLE" which I find to be really over-the-top 120
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 22hThere's a place in Nairobi that specializes in such ~delicacies (I had ostrich and crocodile there) but friends who were there got food poisoning and ended up on Cipro, so, cannot recommend :( 030
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 23hA teacher told me they eat Uromastyx in the Gulf and that it was delicious but then I think she got embarrassed about it (not knowing that, like, many of her students have probably eaten different reptiles) 🤷♂️ 120
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026*frantically asking who in my family has eaten frogs or snails* As far as reptiles, I've only eaten fried gator ... I feel like I might have eaten snake on a trip to Kenya but I can't remember. 220
Reposted by Markˣ𓄣 d🫀ug henning 𒊮 @likethemagician.bsky.social · 06/10/2026While Semitic peoples more typically conflated "right" with "south", Egyptians used *ʔiman- "right side" for west (jmn.t), the Netherworld, and also used the jmn = *ʔmn root for "hiding, sunset". 1/3 4335
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I got the first three as well—and I knew Sulawesi [and should have known the city &%$#@$!] www.maptap.gg October 8 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 90👑 92🏆 Final score: 946maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 220
Markˣ @shjsat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#pastpuzzle en-600 🟩🟩🟩🟩 (0) ▪️▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️ ▪️▪️▪️▪️ 1/4 🥇 www.pastpuzzle.com I just re-read the section of my dissertation about how this happened, but, I would have gotten it anyway, it is mentioned so often herepastpuzzle.comPast Puzzle – Daily History GameGuess the year from 4 historical events. A game inspired by Wordle and history. A new puzzle every day, free to play. 140
