Boo's "Afraid Of Being Alone Forever?"

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For some reason your cat pic doesn't show, I could only see it by copy-pasting the link.

Before posting more cat pics, I'll post an informative map about glorious Oiropa. Everyone always wanted to know this factoid.

That's strange I could see it and then poof it was gone...

Nice map learned something new today

Somehow your curious cats picture showed up! No idea why it wasn't working before, maybe website was farked for a while?
I love maps and languages, there are lots of weird mapmakers these days.










(PIE means Proto-Indo-European, PFU means Proto-Finno-Ugric, and PT means Proto-Turkic)

Interesting how medved means bear, and med means honey in the Slavic languages, they use the word for honey in the word for bear. And Medvedev is sort of named "Mr Bear", which is also funny as Russia is often associated with a bear.
I heard that bears are not even that interested in the honey, but more in the bee larvae, not sure how true that is though.

Egyptian is pretty understandable to me, Egyptian dialect was the most influential Arab country due to their cinema and music industry exposure.

Egyptian dialect is known to "feminize" words - like in your posted example, they say Mayya for water instead of May (Levant) or Ma' (Classic). They tend to add 'a' in the end of words, and their dialect look more feminized (like French) compared to Levantine dialects.

I would struggle to understand Iraqese but not totally non-understandable, Maghreb Arabic (Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Morocco) is the hardest to the Levantines, as if it's a different languages with some common words.

Most of Gulf's dialects (Emirate, Kuwaiti) are understandable to me, harder to understand Saudis when they talk fast though.

To give you the most accurate whole picture:

The difference between one Arabic dialect and another geographically far Arabic dialect (ie. Jordan and Algeria) is definitely far greater than the difference between American English and British English; but it's much less than the difference between French and Italian, or French and German.

The difference between one Arabic dialect and another geographically close Arabic dialect (ie. Lebanon and Palestine) is pretty as much as the difference between American English and British English; within the same country there are different accents too.

I don't think a German and French (despite the proximity of their countries to each other) would be able to understand each other and converse in the same way, let's say, like a Lebanese and Palestinian (especially if West Bank, Ghazanian speak more like Egyptians) would get each other, or even like a Syrian and Egyptian.

There's also a common denominator that can be a saver in communication between people from different Arabic countries which is the "written form of Arabic" (Fusha) aka Classic Arabic, this itself was simplified to Modern Standard Arabic (also known as "the press Arabic") , so if I or him fail to catch on words, we would switch to the standard Arabic for some words, that gives a great boost mutual comprehension, example Moroccans often speak with Lebanese either almost entirely with standard Arabic or with French.

if too long, skip to 7:28, the interesting part.

Now starting to watch the video you posted... but know that Arabic sounds very difficult to someone who doesn't speak it or a language close to it. You probably know since you had to learn French and English, which are not similar to Arabic at all.

I know French, and I can't understand someone speaking Spanish or Italian to me.

Can Germans and Brits understand each other?