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Show HN: Writing Arabic in English

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A phonetic Arabic keyboard I created maps English letters to Arabic sounds, covering emphatic letters, hamza, and diacritics—making it easier for learners and casual users to type Arabic.
1. skinkestek ◴[] No.45148339[source]
Clicking in and hoping to see something about woed for word translation of Arabic, because that is something I enjoy when I see with other languages.

I know some people do it for fun and I don't doubt a number of them are taking the dumbest literal interpretation to make it even funnier, but I really wish there was more emphasis on "this is how natives of the language express this sentence" when learning: not only idioms, but also how ordinary sentences are built different.

(And pointers to resources that do just that would be welcome :-)

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2. Waraqa ◴[] No.45151571[source]
Are you referring to the language examples in the article? Could you please give an example of what you mean?