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  1. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Mm, now I want a trip to the Emirates. I do have a short one to Istanbul this Monday, perhaps that would suffice for now.
  2. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    "It's 'wayed' good" is how I hear it used as well.
  3. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Although I don't believe it's officially Arabic.
  4. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Yes, well done.
  5. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Mm... khalli walli.
  6. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Thankfully, no. And before you ask what the words were, I'm going to decline the details. You'll have to settle for that vague context.
  7. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    I once translated audio for an ambassador, during which he began to chuckle and I immediately realised that I had switched two words causing a drastic shift in meaning.
  8. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Conversational is certainly more forgiving in informal situations.
  9. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    I find literary translations somewhat easier.
  10. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    I no longer translate, of course, that sort of thing is much more tedious than necessary.
  11. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    That happened frequently to me as well while translating.
  12. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    I'm sure it's unnecessary to teach you any Arabic in preparation.
  13. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Famous last words.
  14. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Quite a literal one.
  15. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    With a high risk of being caught in indiscriminate gunfire.
  16. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Amidst unstable security tension and a cholera outbreak?
  17. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Is 'Glamping' decent business, then?
  18. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    While I was in Sana'a, I wanted to go see The Shaharah Bridge, but time did not permit.
  19. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    Hence, 'brief'.
  20. Carmen

    [Chat Log] April-May 2019

    And then I had somewhat 'vacationed' in Al Mukalla but it was a brief stop.
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