Re: Translating CD-ROM

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Yaum al-Ithnain 01 Jumaada al-Thaani 1425 06:21 pm, Ossama Khayat wrote:
> --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <alarfaj0 at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> > Salam,
> >
> > I've seen the word CD-ROM in Debian translated as قرص مدمج (qurs
> > mudmaj). Frankly I don't like it. As a user I find it annoying :)
> >
> > How about اسطوانة (us6uwanah)?
>
> Indeed it's simpler :-) How come it didn't come to my mind? ;-)

I am sorry it seems as if I should never contribute in QAC discussions again. 
May be my Arabic is very poor or may be the culture! So, just consider me 
uttering...

Disk قرص is completely different than cylinder أسطوانة in shape. How come? 
Why?

I will try to get myself used to say the cylinder of the sun أسطوانة الشمس 
instead of The disk of the sun قرص الشمس since ...

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