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Seyed Hasan Nasrallah confirmed killed during bombing on Beirut by the zionist entity (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As confirmed by Hezbollah itself.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

most importantly the original statement was in Arabic and translated to English, very different context for words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly, which is why I say, every time I see them translated I’m taken aback. I am very aware that there’s a very different context. It still throws me off when I see it because I (rightly) do not normally think of Hezbollah and the white supremacist preacher as the same and so seeing them use the same language feels super fucking weird.

I guess this is a better way to say it: Because of my background, those words to me have a white, Christian supremacist implication to them. When I hear people talk like that (in English) it is a very reasonable assumption to make that they’re a psycho that should be avoided at all costs. And that is not the case here, which is why it’s strange.

I shouldn’t have said “religious nuts” I suppose, that was my bad. Idk, could we maybe translate to synonyms that aren’t exactly how the Christian far-right talks?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, which is why I say, every time I see them translated I’m taken aback. I am very aware that there’s a very different context. It still throws me off when I see it because I (rightly) do not normally think of Hezbollah and the white supremacist preacher as the same and so seeing them use the same language feels super fucking weird.

I noticed that when reading the translated version of the Qur'an, feels completely different than in Arabic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not Arabic, so take it with a grain of salt. But I've read that for Arabs reading the Qur'an, it is very comparable to the experience of a westerner trying to read the very old and archaic and dense "Ye Olde" type of English, and that makes alot of sense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

not really, unless you're only used to speaking dialect arabic then news and modern books should sound archaic