Arabic logo quiz!

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When we first moved to Doha, Justin and I drove around taking pictures of company logos in Arabic, in order to put together an identify-the-brand quiz. We never got around to actually making the quiz, though.

Happily, someone else has! Can you name the Companies From the Arabic Version of Their Logo?We got 100

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[dachte]

12/22 (gave up with 2:18 left). For all but one of the things I missed, it was a product I've probably never had in my life (although I got a fair number of those too).

Fun challenge.

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I think a few of them are unguessable unless you can read Arabic or have seen the sign in Arabic before.

[kit_ping]

I got 14, and would have gotten 16 if I'd remembered to write down Mountain Dew and Dunkin' Donuts. :)

[jcreed]

Ah, I just missed "Uncle Ben's"... I had something like "adhka?bndh" transcribed because I mistook nūn for ḏāl, final zāy for final ḏāl, and lām for 'alif.

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All mistakes I have regularly made, especially with weird fonts

[jcreed]

Ah right these are all good things to note.

I had been thinking of an Arabic twf... :) I suppose I should just do all the isolated forms, if I'm just doing an "alphabet" at first rather than a complete font?

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I'd think that's totally legit; otherwise it's way too much work. I mean beyond the 3-4 standard forms you've got things like the taa marbuta and that y without the dots that's pronounced a and whose name I'm blanking on right now, and short vowels, and the shadda, and ligatures like لا.... Way too complicated.