Wednesday, November 25, 2009

i studied arabic for years, housewife

i was playing with google translate's new "type phonetically" feature to translate from arabic to english and, um, i think it needs a little work.

visually, it was pretty neat. each time that i hit the space bar after typing a phonetic arabic word, it turned my word into arabic script. but here's what it did to my last two words:




when i decided to try "8 years" instead, the sentence came out: "i studied the arabic language for years of ottoman."