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Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. UBB Code™ Images not permitted.	[QUOTE]Originally posted by this: [QB] I you wrote it properly as كم جمل google translates it to "How many sentences". It all depends on the context I guess. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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JessRobinson Member # 18612	posted كام جمل ؟
Dzosser Member # 9572	posted How many camels ?
Laura Member # 879	posted http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#ar\|en\| copy and paste it in there, if what I read is correct, it's NOT nice.
JessRobinson Member # 18612	posted Oh gosh, Hope it's not what google says!
Dzosser Member # 9572	posted Google is wrong..
JessRobinson Member # 18612	posted Yeah i've been told it says how many camels but wasnt to sure so thought i'd make sure.. Thanks for your help!
Monkey Member # 17287	posted
marydot Member # 15932	posted Go on cam and lets see your cus..WTF I dont think i'll be asking anyone to translate this for me at the moment
Laura Member # 879	posted If you type in How many camels? and translate English to Arabic, it looks entirely different than what you posted Jess. Hmmmm
Laura Member # 879	posted quote: Originally posted by Dzosser: Google is wrong..
JessRobinson Member # 18612	posted Long story short someone wrote it on a piece of paper (when i was on holiday in Sharm) and out of curiosity i asked a friend back home and i didnt believe him that it said how many camels!
Ayisha Member # 4713	posted agree with Dzosser, how many camels. Naughty Google!
Amoun over the moon Member # 18587	posted quote: Originally posted by Laura: If you type in How many camels? and translate English to Arabic, it looks entirely different than what you posted Jess. Hmmmm I've tried this one and it gave كم عدد الجمال which means "what is the number of camels?" Now here's the intersting thing, if you take this very same Arabic sentence that google gave you, and feed it back into translation from Arabic to English, it gives you "How many beauty"!!! So google contradicts it's own self. I hereby declare google to be wrong. It's all Wael's fault, part of the conspiracy against Egypt!
Ayisha Member # 4713	posted No conspiracy, Jess is being offered marriage and the mahr is how many camels she requests Either that or she is being sold into slavery for some camels, depending on how many she's worth Ask for 1000 Jess, 1000 is the magic number, and a few chickens too.
Amoun over the moon Member # 18587	posted quote: Originally posted by Ayisha: Either that or she is being sold into slavery for some camels, depending on how many she's worth It actually occured to me that he might've asked كام يا جميل which effectively means "how much, love?" The meaning is obvious of course
tina m Member # 13845	posted quote: Originally posted by JessRobinson: كام جمل ؟ when i trandlated it with google it said cam pu@@y
this Member # 17234	posted I you wrote it properly as كم جمل google translates it to "How many sentences". It all depends on the context I guess.
tigerlily_misr Member # 3567	posted Lol, I was asked "How many camels?" in 1994 while going camel riding at the pyramids with a friend from Munich. She had long blong hair, blue eyes... well anyway I told that boy that I am not her mother, he needs to go and ask her parents. Fun times!!
weirdkitty Member # 15365	posted Egyptians play up to the whole camel buying thing as a joke (tunisians too, and im sure other middle eastern countries). They will shout it out as you walk through a Market loads. My parents were asked jokingly all the time how many camels they would sell me for (my patents said three racing camels and 20 chickens, Sam still hasn't paid up!). They know Many westerners have that stereotypical view of the middle east, and so just give the tourist what they want.
tigerlily_misr Member # 3567	posted Well this just brings to mind the 'etneen geneeh' offer from a Cairene guy while walking by one time. My friend was furious. What did he think? We are THAT cheap????
JessRobinson Member # 18612	posted So it does say How many camels then! Thanks everyone for the help. Ayisha - very funny!
marydot Member # 15932	posted [QUOTE]Originally posted by Ayisha: agree with Dzosser, how many camels. Naughty Google! [/QUOTE Indeed Ayisha.
Sashyra8 Member # 14488	posted quote: Originally posted by weirdkitty: Egyptians play up to the whole camel buying thing as a joke (tunisians too, and im sure other middle eastern countries). They will shout it out as you walk through a Market loads. My parents were asked jokingly all the time how many camels they would sell me for (my patents said three racing camels and 20 chickens, Sam still hasn't paid up!). They know Many westerners have that stereotypical view of the middle east, and so just give the tourist what they want. In Morocco they do exactly the same camel joke stuff. Sorry TL,but in Morocco they offered 200 camels for me.That was some years ago,though
metinoot Member # 17031	posted Its sounds like a joke the tourist touts play on tourists who have stars in their eyes. This subject comes up once or twice a year in the last 4 years of ES. Between 2002 and 2005 it came up twice a month, so obviously the tourist touts have been laying off the wisecracks for a while. Possibly showing more restraint and respect.