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		james-redwood on Feb 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help! Is This Arabic? I pity the poor dev who has a Moroccan co-worker that helpfully offers to translate their application into darija thinking it’s Arabic

curiousgal on Feb 27, 2023 [–]

Tangent: I hate how Moroccans monopolized the word darija to mean "Moroccan Arabic". Every country in North Africa calls their own language darija!

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