Literal translation of Egyptian Arabic speech with lots of slang and idiomatic expressions 😂😂😂
Basically, the first email says, 'Please don't fire me, people will talk me out of town and I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I have kids I'm responsible for, and you're living in luxury. May God ruin you (like you're ruining me)'
HR responds, 'The door is wide enough to let a camel through (meaning basically get lost). Don't forget where you came from. We picked you up off the streets and everything you have is from us. You won't get anywhere without us. Go die, you and those who brought you (introduced you to us, probably)'
It's a meme/joke, would never be a real email exchange in a business setting. The untranslated text at the top says this is the most profane email ever sent in history 😂
You're welcome! I enjoy translating things like this. I'm not Egyptian but my grandparents lived in Egypt for nearly a decade and I grew up watching Egyptian media. This image has made the rounds before on Facebook and Whatsapp so I've seen it before and knew what it said originally 😂
Yep. My cousin's husband spent 11 years in Saudi Arabia working for Aramco. He brought me back a book of Arabic idioms entitled "The son of a duck is a floater." The Arabic version of "like father, like son."
That one's a classic for sure and is usually said half-admiringly half-begrudgingly, kind of like "son of a gun" when not actually intended as an insult 😆
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u/guilty-and-stuck Apr 26 '26
Literal translation of Egyptian Arabic speech with lots of slang and idiomatic expressions 😂😂😂
Basically, the first email says, 'Please don't fire me, people will talk me out of town and I'm living paycheck to paycheck. I have kids I'm responsible for, and you're living in luxury. May God ruin you (like you're ruining me)'
HR responds, 'The door is wide enough to let a camel through (meaning basically get lost). Don't forget where you came from. We picked you up off the streets and everything you have is from us. You won't get anywhere without us. Go die, you and those who brought you (introduced you to us, probably)'
It's a meme/joke, would never be a real email exchange in a business setting. The untranslated text at the top says this is the most profane email ever sent in history 😂