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[graculus]

Made the mistake of getting up as I was having trouble getting to sleep and checking my email. Frankly, this one might work for seanchaidh's list of stupid comments/questions.

How can anyone in this day and age apparently not know that Arabic is a language spoken by millions all across the Middle East and further afield? To the point that when someone asks for the Arabic for a particular word they suggest that the language they really want is Farsi and imply that only archaic versions of Arabic still remain.

Why worry? Arabic is only spoken by approximately 286 million people and is an official language of 25 countries.

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[tenaya.livejournal.com]

I'm curious where one would go to get a translation to Ancient Egyptian? I have this story, you see, and a few years ago when I was trying to find a website that might be helpful, I came up short.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

You do what everyone else does and make shit up. ;)

From the movie and the various eps where Daniel has interacted with the Abydonians there should be enough to string something together that at least looks right, whereas Arabic and the Abydonian language don't even sound all that similar.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Good to know. ;-) That's what I'd decided to do, but then I began to wonder if my fellow fen would catch me out and mock me for not being thorough in my research. Thanks for the guidance.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Well, if you've been looking and can't find anything then the chances of getting caught out diminish greatly, I would have thought...

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

Mock, mock, mockity mock. ;-)

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

There might be websites, but what I use is Budge's Egyptian dictionaries. It's got interesting things in there, and it's a litle interesting because there are several words for the same concepts. I have no idea what the different subtleties may mean, but it's really interesting.

(Yes, Budge. Alas. The man is prolific if oddly useful.:))