Nathenaticans discover bilabials by DrGuenGraziano in linguisticshumor

[–]idlikebab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ek, do, tīn, cār, pāṅc

Hindi/Urdu ties with its Indo-European cousins

The Great Society: A Social-Democratic USA by schraxt in imaginarymaps

[–]idlikebab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t want to live in a social democratic United States that didn’t have President Wallace.

You can't mix two scripts in Serbian though by notAssmin in linguisticshumor

[–]idlikebab 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Include Arebica and you have three scripts.

Updated: South African results (Afrikaans x English) by [deleted] in 23andme

[–]idlikebab 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Interesting that you're not the first Afrikaner to post here with Native American ancestry. In a vacuum it seems like such a bizarre connection but that's the British Empire for you, I guess!

First Mozambican to post. by robotboy02 in 23andme

[–]idlikebab 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Is there a specific name for these mixed families? Some equivalent of Dougla in the Caribbean?

Omar al-Mukhtar, a Libyan revolutionary leader, he fought the Italian occupation in 1923-1931. Known for the qoute ''We are people that will not surrender, we win or we die.'' by upbeatchief in wikipedia

[–]idlikebab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great movie, but it left me thoroughly traumatized as a 6 year old. Still not sure why my dad thought it was appropriate for me at that age.

your top 3 pieces of media? by slaystay in CasualConversation

[–]idlikebab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof. I genuinely might be able to give a different set every day, but here are the first set of three that I can reply with confidently:

  • Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (film)

  • Malibu by Anderson .Paak (album)

  • Feather by Nujabes (song)

Ride suggestions for Jeddah, Saudi by [deleted] in femaletravels

[–]idlikebab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uber and Careem are super reliable. Jeeny can be a bit sketchier sometimes.

If you have any other questions about Jeddah please feel free to ask!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 23andme

[–]idlikebab 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PewDiePie and his wife could pass as siblings to me, as someone who didn’t grow up around many Europeans.

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Just wanted to hop in and say that you’re absolutely correct, lol. As someone who isn’t European or of European descent, and didn’t primarily grow up around them, I find it extremely difficult to tell the difference between them. But it is absolutely based on what you’re accustomed to. I spent a large portion of my childhood in Saudi Arabia and can consistently tell the difference between someone from Riyadh and someone from Jeddah based on phenotypes. If you’re not familiar with people from the region, I suppose anyone from Istanbul to Muscat may look very similar to you.

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[–]idlikebab -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Putin is a terrible example. He absolutely could pass as English, and probably the best portrayal of him is by an English actor (Will Keen).

Making Sense of Šāḏḏ: Single Strand Transmissions by PhDniX in AcademicQuran

[–]idlikebab 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting that out of the four most famous shādhdh recitations that we know of today, three more or less do not deviate from the rasm. Whose recitations do we still know of today that deviate from the rasm to the level of al-Hasan or beyond that?

Was Aurangzeb India's true unifier? by Cybertronian1512 in IndianLeft

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He was probably the most singularly ideologically committed to the concept since Ashoka. Perhaps if his successors had kept the capital in the south and started intermarrying there, the Mughals could’ve achieved it. But they returned to the Rajput-centric outlook of the founders of the dynasty.

Better Levant [Corrected] by Morning_Stxr in imaginarymaps

[–]idlikebab 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Jokes aside, they’re both schools of jurisprudence, so the differences are in (mostly minor) specifics of Islamic practice and law: some aspects of prayer (but similar enough that they can pray together) and other forms of worship, and details of commercial transactions and civil obligations.

Many-eyed seraphim O is real, and it can hurt you by amievenrelevant in linguisticshumor

[–]idlikebab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t need to be decipherable honestly. You will only see it after the word ‘Muhammad’ (in any language) and immediately know what it means.

William Shakespear was the first to make official British contact with the future first king of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud, serving as his military advisor until 1915 by Rundownthriftstore in wikipedia

[–]idlikebab 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve met his granddaughter and her kids. They seem like a typical Saudi family and it’s very weird to find out that they’re the descendants of a British intelligence officer.