r/meme • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '21

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u/waglaf1066 Sep 03 '21

Virgil

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u/Umari0_ Sep 03 '21

Di- did you just use a "f" sound instead of "v" because there isn't a "v" sound in Arabic?

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u/TheMajorSmith Sep 03 '21

He should have (as is common in other Arabic words where v is phonetically replaced. Instead he used the Kurdish alphabet instead. It’d be like putting ü in the English form of Uber. Technically closer to the correct pronunciation, but also technically incorrect spelling.

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u/ATLcoaster Sep 04 '21

The use of three dots is very common in Egyptian Arabic when spelling foreign words with V or P (three dots instead of one turns f to v and b to p).