Do you know any Arabic at all? or are you just making things up?

Submitted by Peter Hall (Australia), Dec 2, 2011 at 22:17

Well Amin, you probably thought that your arrogant manner would scare off the truth

You said

First the word are laser and fractal (but I forgive you the typos)... The word for laser is الازر - word for fractal is كسوريه the word for microchip is رقاقة

..... but what does this prove? Even you would have managed to find these....

Well Amin, I checked with a total of 5 Arabic to English translators and 2 Arabic speaking friends and they all say the same

That Arabic has no word for lazer

الازر translates to rice or v. friend, go for smb. Or the back

There is nor Arabic word for Fractal كسوريه translates to as Syria or n wall

There is not word for microchip رقاقة translates to chip

http://www.appliedlanguage.com/translation_resources/free_translation.aspx?

http://translation.babylon.com/arabic/to-english/

http://www.systranet.com/translate

So my research shows that Arabic does not have the terms I say, I have quoted my sources and I can see why Arabic does not work in a modern world. The only answer U received from Arabic speakers to the Arabic for lazer, was lazer, they laughed when I showed them your claims.

So if all these translation programs are wrong, does this not show that there has been no requirement to translate these words? Does it show that Arabic has not had many demands placed upon it?

The translators I used were rated as the most popular on Google, and seem to work well with Chinese, French it even worked better than Arabic when translating Maori to English. Maybe Maori is a more sophisticated language.

I am sure Arabic is a complex language, but that does not make it sophisticated. Remember I did not have to look hard to find the words I used as an example, I can find hundreds of words needed in modern society that there are no equivalent in Arabic.

So are you going to stick with your baseless argument? Or just make up more things?

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