When caring is not sharing: keeping friendships healthy

A friendship based on supplying books and cassettes like a library service should be reconsidered; Lost in translation? Share some of the frustration of linguistic barriers in translation; and tools to help English to Arabic ; Silly signs and adverts.

When a friendship is not balanced and healthy it can be a lonely experience devoid of social comfort.

Zeid Spex [2]

Personal Experience: "Buy Me a New One", Said I

Give AND take: A story of friendships gone awry: Over-sharing is not caring but corrupting the nature of a friendship. Be mindful of exploitation and one-sidedness in any friendship, advises Zeid. "In this post I want to share a personal experience with some friends in my childhood. For some period of time in my childhood I had the problem of not being able to say "No!". And the friends that I had at the time took advantage of that as far as they could. "

Jazarah [3]

The T-Mobile Royal Wedding

More wedding coverage options? Hasn't it already been covered quite comprehensively from all angles and all nations? It's good to know the options. "This is a really cool viral video by T-Mobile, it got more than 17 million views on Youtube in just 2 weeks The video was launched 2 weeks before Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, it was a historic occasion, TV audience from around the world was estimated at 2 billion people, that is quite extraordinary, it was great to see how Brits are out on the streets and in the park to celebrate this occasion, congrats!"

Arab Crunch [4]

Mustalahatek: Arabic User Generated Dictionary for Technical Terms

A great tool for English speaking Arabs and Arab speaking Arabs who need to keep up with rapidly sprouting technical lingo. "Almost every day there is a new technical term in english, Mustalahatek aims to be the place to provide translations to those terms into Arabic."

Chasing Pavements [5]

So Freakin' Hard!

The frustration with that gap between languages that requires a cultural leap in understanding to completely conquer the language, and in both directions- say Arabic- to-English, English-to-Arabic. A translator must be able to work effectively at least in one direction and ideally in both. "Translating Arabic to Spanish is just frustrating for me not because I can't do it,I can...but there's this thing with the difference between speaking a language and dominating it,I speak Spanish but I don't dominate it,I can't play with words and expressions,I can't come up with stronger vocabulary even when I know stronger vocabs they don't occur to me easily,I don't seem to have the enough confidence to manage the sentence the way I want,so it turns out just week because I'd rather get it simple and right than strong with mistakes :("

Dubai Thoughts [6]

Signs of the times

A bag of nuts that may contain nuts? You'd jolly well hope so! This and more such nonsensical notices. "Here's some signage I stumbled across in the UK which caught my attention. The first isn't unique to the UK of course, the stupidity is world-wide."