Comment on que

NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rishado@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Actually he’s asking for a jumbo (large) mouse, funny cause in Arabic you literally read that as ‘jambo’

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  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually he is asking for deli meat. Some mice ham.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    u and o are both و in Arabic

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fair enough. I just used an image translation thing on my phone, so I’m sure you are right. But being from the border of Texas/Louisiana, the idea of mouse gumbo is also hilarious AF.

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• alyth@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I asked my friend from Morocco. He says the cat is asking for mouse flavored “Jumbo”. Jumbo is a brand of stock cubes which normally come in flavors like beef, chicken or lamb. The shopkeeper replies “que” in Spanish which means “what?”

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• olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think gumbo would be spelled as either “كمبو” or “غمبو” instead of the “ج” with the sound “sha” or “dya” depending on dialect.

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  • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It can be قمبو (gulf) or جمبو (Egypt) as well.

    (For non Arabic speakers, hard G does not natively exist in Arabic and different dialects use a different letter to denote a hard G, a lot of the time contextually)

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d have to ask my teacher but given that it’s a smoke shop I think the guy is asking if the seller has any Jumbo Cigars?

  The fact that its a ج and not a غ makes me doubt it’s supposed to be a G approximate.

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  • rishado@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    G approximate varies upon regional dialect (annoying, I know first hand as a multinational Arab)

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why can’t we just yoink Iran’s گ and be done with it?

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Makes sense to me. I just used machine translation and thought results were funny. So you probably know better than me.

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• JoeKis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What

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  • malockin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that’s the translation of the Arabic part

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    • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, “que” means “what” in Spanish.

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      • malockin@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m aware… But apparently too stupid to see that you were continuing with the joke 🤣

        Anyhoo… here’s an upvote 😉

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