Anyone Want a Super-Difficult Challenge (Arabic)?

[Dibbons]

I few years back I took an introductory class in Arabic. Fortunately, my daily driver at the time ('85 Dodge Caravan cargo model) broke down after the first two weeks and I dropped the class. I did kind of learn to write my name. Anyone want to try and decipher it? Or maybe we have a forum member here that reads Arabic. Hint: To make it even more difficult, the name of the letter does not always correspond to the sound of the letter. Here goes and good luck to anyone crazy enough to try it (no cheating):

 

[slimt]

Wouldnt surprize me if it said infadel.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

It says "Even we know Trump won "

 

[gkent]

its says "Yankee go home"

 

[71charger_fan]

Odysius Ramses Kubintin?

 

[Dibbons]

Very good and very close!

 

[Fran Blacker]

Thought Arabic was written right to left, or am I mistaken???

 

[Dibbons]

That's right, but translated one has to make it left to right.

 

[71charger_fan]

That's right, but translated one has to make it left to right.

The sounds of some letters also vary with the dialect. I lived in Egypt for 3 years and the PA in the airports in the Persian Gulf always sounded funny to me.

 

[Brandy]

The sounds of some letters also vary with the dialect. I lived in Egypt for 3 years and the PA in the airports in the Persian Gulf always sounded funny to me.

Mine is limited to the directions needed when dealing with the enemy.

 

[slimt]

You know up here in Canada. Thats the second gum flapping language.

 

[Fran Blacker]

You know up here in Canada. Thats the second gum flapping language.

Thought English and French and then whatever.

 

[slimt]

Thought English and French and then whatever.

English is going away.

 

[mpgmike]

About I know is "Salem a liakem" or something like that that means Peace Be Unto You (Hello).

 

[71charger_fan]

Quinton? I just expanded it and what I thought was a bah was a yeh.

 

[Dibbons]

We have a winner (since Arabic vowel sounds are oftentimes indeterminate). Winner had the two "i"'s (for the last word) correct the first time!

English spelling:

Odysseus Rhamses (or Ramses) Quintin

Would the winner like to explain how he/she solved the puzzle?

 

[Pikser]

قراءة الردود كانت مسلية للغاية

 

[71charger_fan]

We have a winner (since Arabic vowel sounds are oftentimes indeterminate). Winner had the two "i"'s (for the last word) correct the first time!

English spelling:

Odysseus Rhamses (or Ramses) Quintin

Would the winner like to explain how he/she solved the puzzle?

I studied Egyptian Arabic for a couple of years but haven't used it for 12 years so I'm quite rusty. But I have some unusual books on my shelf that not a lot of westerners would have.

 

[Mark Barnes]

I bet I could spend a week in Dearborn MI and have a very good understanding of Arabic, since that's all I would be speaking....

 

[3sloppydogs]

The only foreign language i know is east bawlmer. If you've ever heard it you know what I mean. The locals from Essex and dundalk hon speak it