Gregory's ServerA user called Aldanimarki designed these, which say "I love chokky milk" in Arabic, kind of as a way to make a point about how westerners see their language as sinister.
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Craven~: Strafeslut, Pumpslut~
@InternetEh @x4nw I watched a guy write in Arabic once. It was absolutely mesmerising... And I fucked up an O this morning
sour patch dyke ๐งก๐โค๏ธ๐๐
@MxCraven @InternetEh rofl idk i bet your O would have looked a lot better if you didn't know what it was supposed to look like ;) 
GunChleoc
@InternetEh I think the script looks quite beautiful. No idea why people might think it sinister - maybe because they don't understand it.
Teal Amore
@gunchleoc @InternetEh I mean folks don't assume anything bad when they see chinese or any other languages they don't know. so let's be for real for a second, it's bigotry
flopflipflap
@InternetEh "Auf den ersten Blick scheint vieles unverstรคndlich."  
Space Hobo Actual
@InternetEh I have a bag made by Tom Bihn a couple decades ago, during a time of intense xenophobia in the US. He put labels in all his bags saying "Fabrique en EU", to play with the fact that the French name for the US is "รtats-Unis". He also had "Made in the US" written in a variety of other systems (Hanzi, Arabic, etc) depending on who was the target of paranoia at any given time. Sometimes he put apologies for US foreign policy or aggression on the other sides of these labels.
Space Hobo Actual
@InternetEh You're quite right, but that was never the point: it was made at a specific time when the Republicans in charge were braying in fury that France wouldn't join them in war on Iraq. They engaged in utterly petty culture-war politics on the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries My best friend growing up married a Frenchman, and they had to move to Paris because people refused to work with him based on all this.
Dean Wampler
@InternetEh I think Arabic calligraphy is profoundly beautiful. I have no idea what it says , of course. Your point shows how often people are afraid of things they donโt comprehend with their simple minds 
Alastair McBain :unverified:
@InternetEh Another similar one; Wondermark has been selling this t-shirt for ages: https://topatoco.com/collections/wondermark/products/won-arabic ๐ 
wakame
Reminded me of a case of "hey, let's put some foreign characters there". In that case, chinese characters advertising "hot housewives": 
LisPi
@wakame @InternetEh For similar reasons I'd be disinclined to repost the OP because it could also be a different joke instead.
I have no way to tell. 
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In the same article of Indenpendent.co.uk: > Chinese is a tonal language, which means words sounding the same can often have very different meanings depending on how they are spoken. "tonal language" โ ๏ธโ they have no idea the writing system does not represent tone ่
Lizzie
@InternetEh@dads.cool As someone from the united states of america, particularly in southern west Virginia. It feels like its mystical or magical to me. Almost reminds me of the elvish language from the "lord of the rings". And to me that makes it feel welcoming. But I also am not your average southern west Virginian.
alexing
@InternetEh it just says "chocolate milk" not "choccy milk" but yea im pakistani and this is just rly funny lol
Neo
@InternetEh yeah that's fair looking at this just makes me feel stupid for not being able to read
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@InternetEh alright i know i might be coming across a liiitle bit "look at me i'm one of the good white ppl" rn but like this is really pretty! it's such a cool style of calligraphy