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Apparently, Saudi people talk Lebanese, Egyptian + Syrian

posted 12 years ago by sergio-halaby
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loool

nothing makes me laugh harder than the ignorance of American filmmakers when it comes to foreign language. They get actors from all over the Arab world and made them speak each his own language, not even considering that Arab people might even watch this sorry excuse for a movie.

At least do some *beep* research about the foreign language of the your movie. Do you know that Arabic and Gulf countries speak such a different dialect of the language, that most people from different countries don't understand each other?

really pathetic....

[–] macadoom66 12 years ago

Saudi Arabia brings a lot of it's workforce (laborers) in from other Muslim countries. The same goes for Kuwait and the U.A.E. So that would explain multiple languages among the populace.

[–] CaZSuede 12 years ago

Other than Spanish, many movies are ignorant when it comes to languages. I was talking about a movie that I recently watched that had north korean terrorists, the female (who was Chinese, not Korean), spoke korean so badly I had to read the subtitles (I'm of Korean decent).

[–] raf-33 11 years ago

Lol, I bet when the OP watches a movie set in Los Angeles he is like "FFS, I can tell the difference between English and Spanish, didn't they think I'd notice that there are two languages in this movie? IDIOTS!"

Ya, it's fairly common knowledge that the lower classes in Saudi Arabia are migrants from a dozen other nations, I guess the OP just had a brainfart where he thought he'd try to look clever and humiliate himself simultaneously.

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