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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Counter-Strike de_dust 2 Arabic graffiti

Playing a round of Counter-Strike: Source in the map "de_dust2" for the first time, I noticed some Arabic writing on the walls. I'm used by now to seeing Arabic language mangled in its portrayals in popular media. So I tried to read what was written:




See... Ass... Source? Oh, C-S: Source! I guess they went with phonetics. And then "bahaleh". I don't know what that is. Maybe it's Farsi rather than Arabic.

Then I saw another scribble:



"Freeman Inja Bood." Maybe a botched "in tha hood" ? Gordon Freeman is the main character of the original game.

Then this:



Fr... Frakat... Fragtastic!

The next one is just random letters:



I mean Arabic letters don't even join up like this.

Gee, I wonder which dictator this is (was)?



Do you have any examples of your first language being distorted in movies or games?