Arabic - Blog Posts
Just Grand being interrupted from her daily prayer to her light(her dead friend) and now she will proceed to beat the fuck outta them for making her supposedly “doing nothing but mourn” day into “someone died at your funeral, my friend”
Anyways enjoy!
This is just a mini info dump from an Arab batfamily fan because I find Damian calling his siblings Akhi... adorable (for me as a native speaker watching a writer use Arab words) and, not painful, just... itchy, it URGES me to make a pptx with 300 slides and just? Talk about Arabic?
So... أخي, Akhi, Brother.
It's not incorrect. The word is used in the right place and delivers its intended meaning. Other Arab speakers might not find a problem with it. They'd feel odd like I did but will likely go "eh" and carry on. But I'm an Arabic enthusiast, so...
Like with every language with geographically widespread users, the Arabic tongue kind of- deviated from its roots. The language has naturally branched out into so many dialects I myself can't keep track of.
Arabs from different regions can understand each other. They use the same words but for different purposes and with different pronunciations.
The original root language that holds them all (Quranic Arabic) was simplified into an easier, standard version that is used for formal speeches and as a communication bridge (seeing that you can't, say, translate something to Arabic and say it's for all Arabs if you use a certain dialect. Because an Arabic dialect is an identity at this point, tell me somebody is Syrian, and I know them already)
Now, with the fun part.
See, no Arab calls any sibling of theirs Akhi, I myself would burst laughing if mine did.
Yakhoi يَخوي (nonstandard, everyday Arabic for o, brother) , maybe, if I'm calling a stranger from the streets or an offender I'm going to give a piece of my mind.
Or, hold your breaths, my brother is crying, and the lights are out and I NEED to use the tenderest, most loving, most adoring, most revering tone I could muster so he just knows he is loved and family. Y'know? This specific situation.
And other Arabs might just say, no, I use it when, I use it when, I don't use it, etc.
The point is, nobody will mention Akhi. Because it's a Standard Arabic word, a formal word, and a word used in translated texts and stories when a foreign character we don't consider part of us call their brother. It's weird, it's devoid of emotions, and it's like watching a robot trying to be emotional, but it's a translated text. That's what translated texts use, and it's fine.
It is fine, Standard Arabic has been used for stories so much that nobody questions its influence on a character's characterisation.
I'm not saying Standard Arabic shouldn't be used for story writing, quite the opposite, in fact. I'm just saying that if Arabic is used to represent an Arab, its usage should also consider an everyday Arab experience and manners.
Now to Damian.
Akhi is robotic. Damian's personality does allow him to fall under that category. If for his well refined manners and polite, formal speech.
But even the King wouldn't call his brother Akhi.
He'd call him by his name. For my community (and most, I'm sure) siblings are called by their names, and if we look up historic Quranic (Root) Arabic speakers, they, too, call their siblings by their name. Yes, even the Sultan.
If not by actual name, then either endearing or demeaning names.
Arabs LOVE endearing names, but they're dipped in a pool of honey I don't think Damian would like to dive in.
Talia, on the other hand, would most certainly call Damian Mama. Arab parents call their kids by their own titles. It's the ultimate expression of parental love of all times, in my opinion.
(Don't make Batman call him Papa, though. Pretty sure Damian would malfunction)
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Well, I said all that, but watching writers include Arabic words in his vocabulary is still sweet. Tt is not even a word, but it's such an Arab thing it's my favourite.
If only I could make subtitles of everyday Arab talk and show you, their speech is heavy with, excuse my English, word softeners, it's like they're talking in a TV drama and not the real world.
Watching Damian adopting it would be interesting :D
Why do stupid english letters look so boring like russian and arabic look so cool then normal letters
like i can write ine a russian and i can look so cool like что ты имеешь в виду, я не могу использовать перевод? LOOK BRO honestly smash every russians i see
Sometimes I am so grateful that I speak Arabic, because I can not imagine learning it with no prior knowledge.
My chest, my beloved — your land, your home, your homeland.
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Слідуючи своїм зацікавленням Близьким Сходом і арабською культурою недавно пройшов такий досить цікавий курс “Вступ до Корану”.
Взагалі це перший мій досвід гуманітарного курсу на західний манер, було дуже цікаво як підходять до цього не у нас.
Як для загального розвитку то непогано, але то не зовсім те що мені треба було. Курс більше з точки зору теології, а це не зовсім моє, мені більш цікаві культурні та історичні аспекти.
Hey! Just happened upon this post and thought the list is really worth expanding as I’ve studied some DH myself!
Check out Around DH in 80 Days where there’s a list of 80 DH projects from around the world that were picked to be featured. You can also find their GoogleDocs spreadsheet for the full list of suggested projects. Their efforts to highlight global DH projects are ongoing, and they’ve created this new website as well!
Would also love to share one of my favorite digital projects called Diarna, a geomuseum documenting and mapping sites of Jewish heritage from all over SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) and Central Asia!
And for those interested in learning about or studying different Arabic dialects, I want to share MADAR corpus which is a database collecting Arabic sentences as spoken from 25 Arab cities. This website details how to use it.
Cheers!
Digital Humanities is a really cool field.
It’s main goals is discovering how to use digital infrastructure and tools to do humanities research (linguistics, history, literature) and how to engage the general public in academic discourse of these topics.
From a historian's perspective this is very exciting as many people think history is boring or worse just names and dates. These tools and visualizations of history bring people to the forefront of history conversations and engage directly.
Not to mention these are very fun to play with. Video games for academic nerds.
Digital Humanities really encourages research and digital projects. It may be slowly becoming a passion of mine.
Here are some of my favorite examples:
Allow me to introduce with the Digital Humanities Forum at Miami University Oxford, Ohio. https://libguides.lib.miamioh.edu/c.php?g=1100099&p=8022726
Other universities host past digital humanities projects on their scholarly commons too:
Berkeley: https://digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu/projects
https://orbis.stanford.edu/ Orbis is the interactive trade map of the Roman empire and is a very detailed digital humanities project. It's one of my personal favorites cause you can "Take walking tour to Constantinople"
Or perhaps you'd like to walk the silk road? http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/index.html.en
Image reading is very interesting too, this tool from google is what I I normal think of https://cloud.google.com/vision. The "Try the API feature" allows you to upload and analyze images to find descriptor terms. (Yes I hate google and AI, but I'm sorta okay with metadata for museum object files being made a bit AI, it's painstaking work and there are too many words and way of describing a freaking spoon.)
http://www.onodo.org/ Onodo allows network mapping and is a cool easy to use program. Check out the Gallery to find public published projects on the Mughals Emperors to Star wars.
Geospatial labs create digital products linked to maps and are also a form of digital humanities and is very applicable for the origins of an artifact and conceptualizing location. http://www.arcgis.com/ is a geospatial platform designed to make Story Maps. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b2c6b618e7b24cebb4039ac59dc52f19
Makerspaces and 3-D modeling are also considered to be digital humanities as there is a digital component. So check out the Makerspace at your local library!
Omeka is a digital platform that can create very basic virtual exhibits and is a pain to work with (the backend is annoying as all get out, too many metadata slots) but kinda cool.
Virtual museum exhibits are also digital humanities!!! (I could easily make a series of posts about that) This runs the gambit from slides shows to video game like exhibits to videos of tours and click through tours. It's kinda a you name it it's a valid exhibit model.
I do know that Miami University of Oxford, Ohio has a virtual museum of the Archeology collection on campus, but I don't have a link. Sorry. The collection is made up of 3-D scans of artifacts and is really cutting-edge. I swear I've seen it and been on the website.
https://dsl.richmond.edu/ Is a really cool set of interactive history stats with maps, and primary resources discussing tough social issues like land acquisition and redlining. Even the history of party lines in the US House of Representatives.
https://voyant-tools.org/ Last but not least Voyant is great for analyzing literature. Or my thesis, just to see what the drinking word actual is. It will pick out most common words, make word clouds etc. So if your slide show on a author out of copyright need pizazz you can upload the NOT copyrighted work for some word clouds. Or see the depth of vocabulary used or check that your resume can be read by an API. Cause that's what this tool is an API. THIS IS NOT an AI generation detector it only counts words
Now most of these projects and tools are for English and are US directed, but I'd love to hear about how the rest of the world is doing Digital Humanities. I'd love to hear about your favorite projects and tools! So maybe add a few to this post?
Bombay Bicycle Club | Feel
حلم
Holm, song by Emel
If I could close my eyes,
And the dreams take me by the hand,
I would rise and fly in a new sky,
and I would forget my sorrows.
If I could travel in my imagination,
I would build palaces and nights,
where love and my hopes can grow, and we could erase the pain...
A world, in which you see people, whose features
are clouded by oppression, misery, and suffering,
from a bitter reality that destroys everything we build.
A world where you see rising walls of tyranny,
That crushes in our dreams and dreams
And reign darkness and greed in all hearts.
Bam! Those pics of me are something that I had in mind.
I'm glad I'm in ko-fi!
Happy 4th of July
A Magical Ramadan Night.
Lights in the room
Ramadan Kareem!
My longing weeps for everything. My longing shoots back at me, to kill or to be killed.
-Mahmoud Darwish, Fewer Roses 1986
"وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان/الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب"
"Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
~Naguib Mahfouz
"In my culture, we know death intimately. In Arabic, the highest expression of love is the phrase "ya'aburnee" Translated "you bury me" . It means "I love you so much, I'd sooner die than bury you". It was used by mothers in our lineage who were so used to losing their young in war. In my culture, we cannot talk about love without speaking death's name"
-George Abraham, "Untitled," Published In Black Napkin Press
ARABIC LANGUAGE
Is it weird that i can read Arabic language but not understand it? I so damn wanna learn a proper Arabic language so can i speak it fluently? Help me find resources to do so?
Reading in different languages
Spanish: couldn't be easier, we can tell exactly how to pronounce a word based on its spelling
Russian: ok, we have to memorize where the stress falls on every word because that changes pronunciation completely, but other than that we're good!
Arabic: ok the vowels aren't really written but at least we have the consonants so we can figure out how to say it with practice and memorization
Chinese: well now we have to memorize the pronunciation of every character that gives us pretty much no clues for how to say it, but at least every character only has one reading
Japanese: AAAAAAHHHHHHHH-
Here's a somewhat old charcoal drawing I made for school. It took me a very long time. The ribbon were gyesoed then paint and after that I wrote words on them with brush markers.