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Old 12-23-2009, 01:09 PM   #92 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by loquitur View Post
Dlish, in Hebrew a computer is "mahshev", from HShV, "thinking". I know Arabic works off three-letter roots like Aramaic and Hebrew do, so the word for "thinking" in Arabic should be manipulable that way. Or did they do some horrid thing like spell "kahmbyootehr" in Arabic?
exactly! take your pick...

kahmbyooter
electooniciyeh
mazerboord

its prety tough speaking tech-speak without referring to it in english. has hebrew come up with an equivelent for all its technology words?
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