Comments on: MEMRI and its Mickey Mouse translation

By: tom

tom — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:40:25 +0000

for crying out loud, there is no ambiguity here.

The phrase is “Betokhoona el yahood.”
“Betokhoo” means “will shoot”. “Na” means “us”. “el yahood” is “the Jews”. The subject is “the Jews”, and the object is “us”.

“na” at the end of a verb means “us” as an object, not “them”, which would be “hom”. What is there to argue about?

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By: W Dean

W Dean — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:07:16 +0000

If you read the post you’ll see that at least three Arabic experts have said that MEMRI’s translation is wrong. That there is no ambiguity.

However, you as a ‘student of arabic’ are claiming that there is.

So I guess the only question is: where is it exactly that you’re learning Arabic? Is it the MEMRI Institute for Bare Faced Lying, perhaps?

By: somegal

somegal — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:50:19 +0000

As a student of Arabic, I just have to defend and say that the meaning of the sentence is ambiguous. Jews could either be the subject or the object. But in MEMRI’s defense, it would not make sense in the contect for Jews to be the subject. The question asked was, “What are you/we going to do?”… which implies the response involves doing something, not having something done to.

By: m.idrees

m.idrees — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:05:36 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I have been following MEMRI for some time, but somehow this had escaped my notice.

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