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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The drawback comes when you get a Moroccan person and a Qatari person who don’t understand each other in their native dialects. But then again, they can probably both understand and produce Egyptian Arabic well enough for that to not be a huge problem most of the time.

[–] Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth 11 points 2 months ago

A Qatari and a Moroccan will probably opt for a white (or intellectual) dialect instead of Egyptian; where they will start to swap out words of their dialect with ones from MSA and apply their accent to it.

If a Moroccan was talking to me I would ask them to swap to French (I don't speak French, but I have a better chance)

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