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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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[thefannishwaldo.livejournal.com]

Uh... guh?

Okay, this has made me go grab my scrap book from my cruise... The top nine dumb questions people asked the cruise crew:

What religion are the people with the little bandaids behind their ear?
What elevation is the ship at?
Does the crew sleep on board?
Do I put my luggage out in the hall before or after I go to sleep?
Do these stairs go to the front or the back of the boat?
What do you do with the ice sculptures after they melt?
Is that island surrounded by water?
Is the t.v. on board satelite or cable?
(At the photo gallery) So how do I know which photo is mine?

Some people are just dumb as a box of rocks. What can you do?

[captain-tiv.livejournal.com]

In this day and age, I'm not surprised by people not knowing basics.

You learn so much by listening to these types of questions and answers. Did you know that the Beatles were Paul McCartney's first back up band? ;)

[brihana25.livejournal.com]

People are stupid, and then there's a whole subset of the stupid people that are really stupid.

You know, the kind of people that honestly think Jews and Christians worship different Gods.

~ bri ~

[amycooper.livejournal.com]

As I stated in amused_library recently in comment to someones trials and tribulations with stupid patrons: People are really stupid sometimes.

[seanchaidh.livejournal.com]

*facepalm* Oy vey.

I was reading an otherwise nice Jack/Daniel/Sam fic this evening and there were words being thrown in that were Arabic, and yet it was a Moebius I/II missing scene. Um, hello? Arabic doesn't EXIST YET in Ancient Egyptian where the language was *actually* Egyptian. Totally different beasts.