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    Translation help

    In the last week I have started getting a lot of traffic from this site http://forum.uaewomen.net/showthread.php?t=286052 to my website. They have a picture of the vanity I build listed. I don't know if they are selling, using it as a model or saying what good firewood it could produce. Could someone take a look at it for me and see what it says by the picture of the log vanity, and maybe what the theme of the overall website is. It looks like some Mid-East language and I have a hard enough time with American, notice I didn't say English.
    Creation is a transfer of ideas to matter.

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    Looks like arabic. I can read about 20 words in arabic and I can curse in arabic.

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    Does this help?

    http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8

    After trying to read the translated version - and taking some Ibuprophen - i don't gather this helped a whole lot. It does look like they're discussing various designs and pointing out their likes and dislikes. It's hard to take the literal translation to mean much since it seems the google translater isn't much into interpretation as it is literal word translation. It doesn't help put things in the right order to get the english version of their intended meaning.
    Last edited by Jason Beam; 07-28-2008 at 7:20 PM.
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    Arabic's structure is not even remotely like english's. A computer could not possibly translate well. You'd even be lucky to make any sense of a literal translation. Your best bet would be to find someone who know's arabic. I believe there was someone on this forum who posted from an arab country, or it might have been someone on woodnet.

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    uaewomen.ae@hotmail.com

    send them an email.

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    I have a guy at work from Egypt who reads Arabic and will ask him if he can translate.

    Update: My coworker said that the web site is basically complementing all the pieces shown.
    Last edited by Alex Berkovsky; 07-29-2008 at 8:25 AM.

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    Cool, Thanks guys, I got 342 hits from this website today. Amazing that there were no emails. Again thanks, also to your friend, Alex.
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