Sent in by many people.
Oct 29th 2024
"Spotted at a halal restaurant in Tokyo, specifically "Toribushi Halal Ramen"
via email
Sep 18th 2024
"Watched your Deconstruct 2019 talk and wanted to know more about the subject, so I looked up the paper. Rather ironically, something on the website that hosts it must have been tested only with English.
(I have already informed them, hopefully it'll get fixed soon)"
☠️☠️☠️
via email
Sep 6th 2024
"This is at a large moving display at immigration, and I imagine people don't spend much time here as a result. This image was taken from a lounge while waiting for a flight."
At Changi Airport, Singapore
via email
Jun 23rd 2024
"spotted on Caltrain, the regional rail line between San Francisco and San Jose"
Jun 11th 2024
"I received this from the Dutch government yesterday giving info in vaccinations."
via email
Jan 12th 2023
"Seen on a bodega in Bed-Stuy.
Bonus points — the Hebrew is also backwards, the diacritics are nonsensical, and Hebrew is not a language spoken in the neighborhood — that would be yiddish, a completely different language written in the same script."
via email
Jul 30th 2022
"the model is 'Topher DiMaggio'
he has it for ten years or more
it's supposed meaning is: the journey (of my life) means a lot"
via email
Jun 22nd 2022
That's the second one from the Cowboy Bebop. The original anime had Arabic script in it and they got it right.
via @EltaibSami (reported by @nazihfares)
Nov 21st 2021
"I saw this at the entrance of a small mall in Germany and it hurt my eyes and heart."
via email
Jun 8th 2021
Spotted in the video game "Maquette" by Annapurna Interactive, more images at the source.
Mar 1st 2021
"An ad I received from Ubisoft regarding one of their upcoming games, Scott Pilgrim."
via email from Mohammed Maher Abed
Dec 17th 2020
(BREAKING NEWS) no one working at the the late show can read arabic via my family whatsapp group chat
Oct 23rd 2018
Nothing says “happy Ramadan” like butchering Islam’s holy language. via @arabictype
May 22nd 2018
Spotted in Peleng Island by my parents, who confirm that this is not, in fact, Arabic.
Feb 20th 2018
“France literally has millions of Arabs living here, but no one thought to ask one of them to write this Christmas sign outside Notre Dame.” via @ConorMichael28
Dec 21st 2017
It’s not like your business model involves people from other countries or anything. via @sandsubramanian
Dec 4th 2017
¡̣̥̫͎̼͍͝ǝ̰̙̲ǹ͖̩u̱̝̠̳̪ǝ̭ʌ̛̫̹̻̰̪̻u̩̺̥͓̟͠ͅǝᴉq̳͝ͅ via canttouchthisifyouaintblack
Dec 4th 2017
Treasures are usually rare, but this butchered Arabic is all too common. via @JamilAlio
Aug 31st 2017
More like “don’t forget to hoplessly butcher this language” via @AhmedElGabri
Aug 21st 2017
via aleadras: “In Málaga, Andalusia. Campaign against sexual harrassment. “No” means “no”, but “al” means… ?”
Jul 15th 2017
via Nick D: “I was putting together Arabic examples for a presentation and happened to notice this restaurant Did you mean قبلة ?”
Jul 11th 2017
via Nick D: “From the trailer for the new ‘The Mummy’ movie” We’d need a whole other blog to address the tired racist stereotype of a masked Arab firing a rocket, but for now, no, that sign in the background is not Arabic.
Jul 11th 2017
via hellpe: “From Legion S01E01. Not Arabic, am I right?” you are as right as they are wrong, my friend.
Jul 11th 2017
From the national broadcasting corporation in Spain, RTVE: القسم العربي via aleadras
Jul 11th 2017
The only thing worse than the lazy butchering of a language cast into metal is the fact that they were trying to say “Heritage Walk” via @porglezomp
Jul 8th 2017
You should get a refund on whatever you paid for that sign, because that’s not Arabic. via @sygma
Feb 2nd 2017
Sorry, CBS’s Madam Secretary, that’s not “another Benghazi” because that’s not even Arabic. via @Rowaida_Abdel
Dec 31st 2016
My “shopping” won’t be “happy” until you get the “Arabic” right. via moustafachamli
Dec 31st 2016
Four year old Russian girl knows more Arabic that whatever adult designed that t-shirt. via @tha_rami from this video
Oct 25th 2016
This video opens with a touching montage of names and falls flat on its face in the first two seconds. via @kamalmarhubi
Oct 5th 2016
We’ll use blockchains and modern cryptography to reimagine DNS and shed all its problems! Well, not all its problems…
Aug 16th 2016
A wild POKÉMON GO appeared!
It used COMMON ARABIC RENDERING BUG!
It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE!
ARABIC SPEAKERS have FAINTED!
The Future of Language Publishing is a lot like the present. Full video. via @publishergeek, @KhaledGhetas
May 29th 2016
Can’t tell what you were going for, but you didn’t arrive at Arabic, friend. via @sygma
Nov 12th 2015
This image was used as the banner for the original tumblr blog.
via @edeng. Original article is on Aljazeera, photo © Getty Images, Sajjad Hussain
Aug 29th 2015
You wanted مقاتل, which means fighter, but you got م ق ا ت ل, which just means ignorant motherfucker.
Aug 29th 2015
HEAR Asbestor? THINK Prevention! READ Something that isn’t close to Arabic via Twitter
Mar 29th 2015
Threes is a game about matching numbers, not Arabic letters on the high score page.
Mar 3rd 2015
The word ‘chocolate’ in a variety of languages, except of course Arabic, which is no where to be found. Via Salman Aljammaz
Feb 2nd 2015
It may be the best website of 2015, but that’s not Arabic. Appreciate aligning it to the right, though!
Jan 12th 2015
Sublime Text is my editor of choice, and a brilliant piece of software, unless you’re developing an Arabic programming language in it…
Dec 21st 2014
UPDATE This has been fixed! Thank you for caring! Twine is a great story telling platform, unless your story is in Arabic
Dec 21st 2014
DICE spent a lot of time making Battlefield 4 look super pretty and polished, except the Arabic
Nov 26th 2014
