Offbeat

Offbeat

we've lost the war against Arabized English

convenient communication > "proper" communication

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Aziz Alangari
Oct 29, 2025
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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…

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