we've lost the war against Arabized English

convenient communication > "proper" communication

In the early 2000s, long before mainstream internet adoption, cell phones and computers did not offer support for Arabic keyboards. This neglect could’ve defaulted the Arabic internet user into an English-only online experience, but no. Arabs wanted to communicate in Arabic, and if I know one thing about my heritage it’s that yes, we can be lazy, but in the rare occasion where we need an innovative solution for a problem, we will find one—because being Arab outside of the Arab world (in this case the early internet era) means being adaptive, preserving, and very, very resilient when we feel like it.

So yes, instead of surrendering to Big Tech’s language limitations, the early internet Arabs discovered found a solution: a modernized, internet-friendly version of the Arabic language dubbed “Arabized English”, or انجليزي معرّب.

Arabized English consists primarily of alphanumeric words written in English used to phonetically spell out (and sound like) Arabic words. People use it to be able …