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January 19

More Arabic

http://www.lyceefrancaisagadir.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/college-txt.jpg - What is the Arabic in this image? It is for en:Lycée Français d'Agadir. Thanks!

WhisperToMe (talk) 02:47, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies to Omidinist, it's better just to let him answer all of these :) But it says "الثانویة الفرنسية بكادير". Adam Bishop (talk) 03:16, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Just to correct a little error: الثانویة الفرنسیة باکادیر. Omidinist (talk) 04:38, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 05:24, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oops! See, I knew I should have waited! Adam Bishop (talk) 15:08, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Do people working in Arabic have to increase the zoom levels on their computers compared with Latin script? I can't read any Arabic, but even if I could I don't see how I could make out that tiny writing without big zoom. 109.157.10.246 (talk) 01:50, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It is a bit tiny. It's like reading 8 pt Latin text. I'm not sure why it shows up like that, something to do with character encoding in Unicode or some such, I suppose. Adam Bishop (talk) 03:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Try to read ٱلْثّانَوِیَّةُ ٱلْفَرَنْسِیَّةُ (the fully diacriticized version of first two words of the example) without big zoom. --Theurgist (talk) 16:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What is the word for this?

What is the word for that fuzzy, blurry thing that temporarily appears on your eyeglasses in the middle of winter when you rapidly come from the freezing cold outside to a warm indoor space? JIP | Talk 19:07, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If what you're talking about is what I'm thinking of, my family usually just calls it Condensation, since it's the beginnings of it. Sometimes "fog." Ian.thomson (talk) 19:14, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lenses "fogging up" is the usual colloquialism I've heard, and condensation is the technical term, just like when a cold drink makes the glass "perspire". You can get the same effect going from an air-conditioned space out into heat and humidity. And it can be annoying, but there's a trick to lessen its effect - when passing from the one environment to the other, hold your breath for a little bit - because most if not all of that condensation is coming from your own exhaling. Try it sometime. :) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:43, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I call it 'steaming', or 'steaming up'. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (Chin Wag) 11:40, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes condensation is probably more technically correct but most of AmEng speakers I know would say their glasses "fogged up" or "are foggy." There's probably a specific word for it in German :)SemanticMantis (talk) 16:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As KageTora says above, "steamed-up" is widely used in the UK, which is one of those double entendres on which much British humour depends, since "steamed-up" is also a rather archaic term meaning "aroused with ardour" amongst other things. We're a simple people, easily amused. Alansplodge (talk) 13:58, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]