April 5th, 2010 / 9:26 pm
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Understanding Campaign

The wonderful Justin Sirois of Narrow House and his MLKNG SCKLS co-author Haneen Alshujairy have created a campaign to teach the world one word of Arabic. I think this is a great idea. Buy a button, some stickers, share the image here!

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23 Comments

  1. Jhon Baker

      Very interesting. It looks like a man or woman lying down staring at the moon and stars.

  2. Jhon Baker

      Very interesting. It looks like a man or woman lying down staring at the moon and stars.

  3. ael

      How do you say it??

  4. ael

      How do you say it??

  5. zusya

      رهيبة

      learn chinese, english, spanish and arabic and you can speak to practically anyone on the planet.

      /next most “populous” language is a hard guess: hindi? french? russian?

  6. zusya

      رهيبة

      learn chinese, english, spanish and arabic and you can speak to practically anyone on the planet.

      /next most “populous” language is a hard guess: hindi? french? russian?

  7. Logorréia - Livros, literatura, bibliotecas, escritores, leituras, leitores

      […] Sirois, da Narrow House, criou uma campanha muito bacana: ensinar ao mundo uma palavra árabe: فِهْم. A palavra — que quer dizer […]

  8. Tim Horvath

      Yeah, that is one beautiful word. It calls to mind Marc Changizi’s idea that letters across languages mimic the shapes most commonly found in the natural world, that language “harnesses” the world (his term). I like what you saw in it.

      I’m excited to be teaching Sirois’s “uncooking” scene from SCKLS in class tomorrow, along with other reverse chronological narratives, Time’s Arrow and “Memento.” The scene keeps up with the best of them, I think.

  9. Tim Horvath

      Yeah, that is one beautiful word. It calls to mind Marc Changizi’s idea that letters across languages mimic the shapes most commonly found in the natural world, that language “harnesses” the world (his term). I like what you saw in it.

      I’m excited to be teaching Sirois’s “uncooking” scene from SCKLS in class tomorrow, along with other reverse chronological narratives, Time’s Arrow and “Memento.” The scene keeps up with the best of them, I think.

  10. jh

      ET doing the limbo with a snail on his stomach.

  11. jh

      ET doing the limbo with a snail on his stomach.

  12. dddddan

      ech, too sanguine; sickly sweet ethical tourism

  13. dddddan

      ech, too sanguine; sickly sweet ethical tourism

  14. Donald

      MLKNG SCKLS sounds pretty interesting. I might make a purchase.

      How do you pronounce it? All I can come up with is “milking suckles”.

  15. Donald

      MLKNG SCKLS sounds pretty interesting. I might make a purchase.

      How do you pronounce it? All I can come up with is “milking suckles”.

  16. Justin Sirois

      MLKNG SCKLS = Milking Sickles. I really have no idea what it means, though. Imagine men grabbing a sickle and milking it – wrapping their hands around a blade and producing only blood.

      And Fihm = “understanding” in Arabic. Stop by the HTML G table at AWP and I’ll give you guys free UC buttons!

  17. Justin Sirois

      MLKNG SCKLS = Milking Sickles. I really have no idea what it means, though. Imagine men grabbing a sickle and milking it – wrapping their hands around a blade and producing only blood.

      And Fihm = “understanding” in Arabic. Stop by the HTML G table at AWP and I’ll give you guys free UC buttons!

  18. ce.

      Agreed. That uncooking scene was incredible. I highly suggest the purchase, Donald.

  19. ce.

      Agreed. That uncooking scene was incredible. I highly suggest the purchase, Donald.

  20. mimi

      Reclining ET contemplating his very unusual-looking (to earthlings) extraterrestial navel by the light of a full moon, an extraterrestial question mark (diamond-shaped) hovering tellingly above his head.

  21. mimi

      Reclining ET contemplating his very unusual-looking (to earthlings) extraterrestial navel by the light of a full moon, an extraterrestial question mark (diamond-shaped) hovering tellingly above his head.

  22. Justin Sirois

      JH – I told Jamie GP that it looked like ET playing soccer. Too funny. (He might have a mullet, too).

  23. Justin Sirois

      JH – I told Jamie GP that it looked like ET playing soccer. Too funny. (He might have a mullet, too).