Talk:How to tell if you're Egyptian

This one was a real surprise...
Note: Americans call it "football".
Question: Do we even know enough about *there*'s Egypt to réally create a Culture Quiz?????? To be quite honest, I think this one might best be placed on the back burner until we know a lót more about Egypt. Elemtilas 08:42, 11 January 2006 (PST)

Now, you see, I have a pretty strong feeling about what Egypt is like, although this is indeed a WIP because a lot needs to be developed. And I consider the culture test part of the process of working things out about Egypt. And as I go along, I was going to certainly leave room for development. Zahir 08:50, 11 January 2006 (PST)

Fair enough! I wasn't aware you'd been working on Egypt. Elemtilas 13:39, 11 January 2006 (PST)

"You might have a smattering of Hebrew, especially if you're from the North."

No one speaks Hebrew as a living language; it's a liturgical language and Jewish inter-language. The vernacular of Judea is Judajca. Steg. Boroparkpyro 14:16, 11 January 2006 (PST)

Just a few questions:

- "you know how football is played" are you're talking about the one with the round ball ?

- "A billion is a million millions" unless egyptian actualy use the word "billion", that part wouldn't realy apply.

- [under homosexuality] "Except Uncle Youseph", I don't get that one.

- "You'd rather have a film be dubbed than subtitled" from what I've seen, subtitles seem to be a lot more common in the middle east then dubbing. Is it realy the reverse in Egypt ? (It's not rethorical, I'm just curious). --Marc Pasquin 13:08, 12 May 2006 (PDT)

In Egypt, as in most places on earth, "football" is always played with a round ball. I'm not sure anywhere other than the US calls it soccer.Zahir 18:54, 12 May 2006 (PDT)

Canada does but I just wanted to make sure. Footbal incidently can also refer to other sport such as Australian Football (similar to rugby). --Marc Pasquin 08:49, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

Seems to me Egyptians would have as much (and as little) use for the word "billion" as anybody else.Zahir 18:54, 12 May 2006 (PDT)

I think you misunderstood, I was not talking about the amount it represent but the word "billion" itself. the reason this entry is often seen in "how to tell you're..." is that it is a false friend among european languages. So, unless egyptian use a number name which is a cognate (I don't speak arabic), there is no point in including this entry.

To give an example, the phoneme "Mard" in farsi means "man" while in quebec french, it means "Feces". It would be important then to point out which use which but would be irrelevant in any other language that don't have an homophonic word. --Marc Pasquin 08:49, 13 May 2006 (PDT)

Cultures to a large extent consist of tensions between opposing ideas/impulses/standards. The Arab world has one regarding homosexuality in that such is condemned and yet flourished (the "boy brothels" of the Middle East were/are somewhat famous). In this case, I see this item as noting that homosexuality is officially a sin, but tolerated in practice.

I bow to your knowledge of the Middle East and dubbing vs. subtitles. I shall change the list accordingly. Zahir 18:54, 12 May 2006 (PDT)

Anybody have a problem de-propping this? Zahir 18:59, 29 November 2006 (PST)