When Arabic Translator's Mix up the "B" & "P" sounds in English to disasterous results

This is actually a shop in Saudi Arabia, not Oman, but I've seen similar ghastly tanslation errors here concerning these two sounds. Thi...

CELLPHONE ENGLISH in Oman: Caw Meat

Now, this one should have been easy for me, with all my experience with Omani texting;p :D. But for some reason I was stuck. I recieved the ...

QUOTE OF THE DAY

From my husband the following classic: My Omani Prince, aka MOP: "Sometimes, my English, it suck." BTW, the picture on this post ...

Omani Word of the Day: Cat

The Omani word of the day (differing from the Arabic kit-ta) is "se-nora" for "cat". Like the spanish word for lady, bu...

Omani Arabic Phrases: Are we laughing?

"Moo3yani NDhack?" Actually the first sentance I was ever taught. I often say it wrong because there is a gutteral "aiyn...

Omani Arabic: Word of the Day

Today I was in a line for my visa (as per usual as Oman's longest running tourist) and the wait was soooooooooooooooooo inexplicably boo...

Arabic Phrases: MashaAllah

" Mashallah " is an Arabic word that litterally means " thank Allah/praise Allah ". Its cultural meaning in Oman? It is ...

Omani Shopping Phrases

If you want to point at something and pick it up and ask what it is worth say: "Kam hatha?" Make sure you know your Arabic numbers...

Quote of the day, via text message

Now, dear readers, do not be alarmed, the following was sent via text message, from a dear Omani friend (or two, or four, who ALL spell the ...

When Love Gives You WORMS

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, lol, :XD, the most romantic text message ever from an Omani husband to his British wife: Honey, I miss ur worm hug. He mea...

Omani Arabic-for my girl in Jordan- part 1

Oman can be grouped into different language regions with different accents. I find it fun to guess where people are from based on their clot...

What I lost in Translation, is my ability to speak English

When I am typing text messages I have started to writing like my Omani friends. It drives my English-speaking friends insane lol. Somewhere...