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Re: ما رأيكم بترجمة Cookie= كعكة ؟

well cookie is a small kind of cake AKA biscuites in britain english. i don't know if there is a universal arabic word for biscuites but here we use بسكوته which might be because of the integration of hebrew into our own language.

if you watch a movie like Tomb Raider and you hear lara saying "i just found my cookies" refering to some kind of universal car remote, you know that the word cookie doesn't only mean cake/biscuite in english. now the problem is that in arabic كعكة and سكاكر don't have any similar meanings, on the other hand, it's us(mainly you) who are trying to bring arabic to the computers here, so if we/you have a word that could fit if with changing it's meaning a little bit i'm for it. this is the way how languages evolve.

perhaps سكاكر will fit. As some people noted, it's a very general term and not widely used, we can attatch a new meaning to it if we chose to.

In general i'm in favor of كوكيز but we also want to extend our own language and not only make it dependant on other languages or don't we?

only my 0.02$

PS: for those wondering: my arabic is horrible, my lowest school grade was arabic and i've never written arabic poems nor do i ever intend to.

Afief

On 8/13/06, Bashar <big at kuwaitnet dot net> wrote:

ولكن كلمة cookie واضحة انها كعكة, لا اتوقع تواجد شخص سوف يترجمها حلوى او سكاكر إلا من يريد إيجا مرادفات مثلنا


cookie = كعكة

cookies = كعك


although google translates the as

الكوكي

الكوكيز

but we have to teach google


same goes for server

الخادم ؟

الجرسون ؟

السيرفر ؟


its just what we see it fit most and start using it and educate the users

remember the days of

ملقم

نواة

قشرة

إلخ...


Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:

On 8/11/06, Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
On Friday 11 August 2006 13:30, محمد سعد wrote:
> ما رأيكم بترجمة Cookie= كعكة ؟
> هل من عنده اقتراح آخر ؟
حلوى :)

I am in favour of كوكي

For a single reason:

Words like سكاكر and حلوى and كعكة and the like will confuse some
people. I can picture a user who just read the message "يجب تفعيل
الحلوى" (cookies must be enabled) and thinking "Why is this thing
talking about food right now"? The reason that the word cookie works
in English but the translations cannot work in Arabic, is that the
word Cookie already acquired new meaning which English language
speakers already know by convention.

Abdulaziz,
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