Rex Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I now gladly get to destroy the second-rate version I made a year ago out of general objects. Very nice job! Rex's Rig Intel i9-14900K | Nvidia RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 | 3x4TB 990 Pro M2 SSDs | HP Reverb 2 | 49" Samsung 5120x1440 @ 120Mhz TM Warthog Stick + Throttle | TM Pendulum Pedals | MS Sidewinder 2 FFB | Track IR | Cougar MFD x 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldur Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Certainly does. But I'm using that chance now to ask the probably dumbest question on the planet. Is it At-Tanf or Al-Tanf? Regardless where I look, I find both, and apparently they're both the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Posted April 3, 2022 Author Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) On 3/20/2022 at 5:57 PM, Eldur said: Certainly does. But I'm using that chance now to ask the probably dumbest question on the planet. Is it At-Tanf or Al-Tanf? Regardless where I look, I find both, and apparently they're both the same. I always understood it to be AL Tanf (with an "L"), but I looked it up too and like you said, both are used. I dunno why. Edited April 3, 2022 by Rex Rex's Rig Intel i9-14900K | Nvidia RTX 4090 | 64GB DDR5 | 3x4TB 990 Pro M2 SSDs | HP Reverb 2 | 49" Samsung 5120x1440 @ 120Mhz TM Warthog Stick + Throttle | TM Pendulum Pedals | MS Sidewinder 2 FFB | Track IR | Cougar MFD x 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Wikipedia uses Al-Tanf, the other might just be a widespread misspelling. That said, Arabic is weird. There are sometimes multiple ways to romanize a given word, such as Osama/Usama and Quadaffi/Gadaffi, to name the two well known ones. I'm no Arabic speaker, but I do know that the sounds in that language don't always match English ones very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kang Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 It might be worth noting that 'Arabic' isn't exactly one monolithic language either, it has many 'flavours', as in dialects and accents, which is possibly one of the reasons these things get so chaotic. Someone from, say, Tunisia pronounces things differently from someone from Syria, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon1-1 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) Yes, but as luck would have it, there's only one written variety of Arabic, this being Classical Arabic (yes, Westen linguists distinguish between it and MSA, but native speakers usually don't, and the differences aren't great anyway). As such, in a written medium, there's only one relevant variety, but as it happens you don't even need to bring in the dialects to have issues with romanization. The alphabets just don't correspond very well. Edited April 7, 2022 by Dragon1-1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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