_samihasan_

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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
The problem with this system, besides the appearance and inherent ambiguity to name a few, is that it doesn't cover essential parts of the language like "stress" and "tonality" where other writing systems do.
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
I prefer to write Tim Hortons like this "تِم هُرتُنز" in Arabic but that's just me.
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Well, I must say that I fail to see the rationale of this argument as I speak other European languages and I haven't encountered this problem before. The mental process goes like this; I identify the language of text let's say Spa
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
The comparison of Arabic with Russian is not sound as Arabic is written with diacritics which in and of itself is a big plus if you're a native speaker or an experienced one but not so for inexperienced or novice speakers while Russian
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I might disagree with your characterization that the problem I'm addressing here as a non-problem as writing systems are there for a reason and so is mine. Eskéndereyya doesn't tackle the prob
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
That's right in abstract but in the context of poetry, the case ending can change arbitrarily and rules are bent to serve the medium, and that's what exactly Shakira did in this song. :)
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Author here. Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the concern of this substituting the Arabic script, I addressed this in the intro section of the project where I laid it out plain and clear that the target is novice learners of Arabic as I n
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Well, "أهلاً بكم" which means "Welcome" for second person plural in English is transliterated into "Eskéndereyya" as "ählan bekom". Note the umlaut mark on the letter "a" as it's a Hamz
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Yes. In MSA, it's "Iskandar" and in Egyptian Arabic it's "Eskandar".
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Just a minor correction, "Eskéndereyya" is Alexandria in Egyptian Arabic not MSA. In MSA, it's "al Iskándareyya" using this writing system rules.
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Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabic in Latin Script(github.com)
72 points by _samihasan_ 10y ago|68 comments
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
I agree with you completely and I even developed an open -source writing system called Eskéndereyya [1] to help learners of Arabic in reading and pronunciation and to prepare them to make the jump to the Arabic script very confidently becau
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Her pronunciation of Arabic is off a little bit. She just crammed the Semitic sounds in a few made up words sparkled by some real Arabic words and that's it but she should have been making more effort in imitating the rhythm and intona
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Hi, Have you completed the whole guide? Eskéndereyya doesn't only support MSA but other regional derivative languages/dialects like Egyptian and Syrian Arabic. Also, it would be a good idea to refresh your memory and test your kno
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
If they manage to reach 99% translation accuracy of German texts, I say they achieved a very remarkable feat. I know that Modern Standard Arabic is not supported yet with the NML system but I just went and tried the translation for a small
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
https://github.com/samihasan/eskendereyya I developed "Eskéndereyya", a comprehensive writing system of Arabic in Latin alphabet to help Arabic learners esp. beginners to improve their reading and writing ski
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Hi Nadya, Thanks for your feedback. I am not really familiar with romanization schemes of the Japanese language. So, I can't really comment on the specific point you raised but I'm familiar with other schemes of Arabic and most ar
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
Hi, This is Sami. I developed this comprehensive writing system of Arabic in Latin alphabet to help Arabic learners esp. beginners to improve their reading and writing skills in Arabic without the immediate need to be familiar with the Arab
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Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn how to read and write Arabic(github.com)
14 points by _samihasan_ 10y ago|5 comments
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by _samihasan_ 10y ago
I'm wondering why doesn't the US implement a system like "Two-round system" as a part of electoral reforms because as I see it the current system in place is not fair for the electorate or even the candidates themselves.