Friday, December 19, 2008

Another strange sign



Desert turf. Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it, but we get used to things like this in Dubai.

2 comments:

LDU said...

The Arabic text above doesn't convey any meaning in the arabic language. It is the english pronunciation written in Arabic - which doesn't sound too accurate when you do read it loud.

Seabee said...

LDU, thanks for that info.

I've actually asked that question before - is the Arabic a true translation or is it just a phonetic copy of the English words. On my October post about a fish & chip shop Abid said the Arabic simply says "feesh sheep"