What language do the MEC Speak?

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JDMT
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What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by JDMT »

Does anyone know what Language the MEC speak?
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by gclark03 »

Arabic.
Menigmand
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Menigmand »

They speak classical Arabic - the type found in newspapers and on tv (not the language you will hear actually spoken in any arabic countries).

It would be great if the MEC spoke more contemporary Arabic (for example Egyptian dialect)

But at least they don't mention "Starlight at this location", as far as I know :)
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

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JDMT wrote:Does anyone know what Language the MEC speak?
As far as my knowledge about Arabic reaches (I'm a halfblood, half Dutch, half Egyptian. I feel Dutch tbh, although some people don't feel the same about that..) They speak Middle Eastern Arabic, I know this because I understand most of the lines. Mostly spoken in North Africa (Exept from big parts of Morroco, they speak berber over there) and the the Palestinian region, such as Libanon and Syria.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Salah ad Din »

Every Arab country has their own dialect. An Egyptian will have difficulties understanding someone from Morocco.

All Arabs, if they have a minimum level of education, should be able to communicate though, by talking classic Arabic, although it would be a very unnatural way of talking.

Many non-Egyptians though, will probably understand Egyptian Arabic, since it has been widely propagated in the Arab world through the televised soap operas from Egypt.

Quite often, if you hear Arabic in a movie, it will actually be Egyptian, unless the movie was filmed in Morocco and local Extras where used.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by MCI »

Ah, again Salah ad Din :D . May i ask where you're from, and where do your roots lay? The thing with the Morocco Berber is too different from Arabic. It's a language of it's own.

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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Salah ad Din »

Yah, Berber has not a lot to do with Arabic. I meant Moroccans speaking the moroccan dialect of Arabic. Berber is a whole different story.

I'm a German, and I practically know no Arabic. But I have Arabic relatives.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

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MCI wrote:As far as my knowledge about Arabic reaches (I'm a halfblood, half Dutch, half Egyptian. I feel Dutch tbh, although some people don't feel the same about that..) They speak Middle Eastern Arabic, I know this because I understand most of the lines. Mostly spoken in North Africa (Exept from big parts of Morroco, they speak berber over there) and the the Palestinian region, such as Libanon and Syria.
I'm my self Moroccan and lived several years in Rabat and the big part of Morocco speaks Arabic, Berbers is only used in some regions like (the rif and souss) Berbers it self got a lot of variants and not really spoken in the whole country. A big part from the immigrants in the Netherlands are from the Rif and mostly from the countryside thats why they only speak Berbers :wink:
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by ottozeimer »

Just a quickie

Is it possible to insert
La illahu illalah into insurgent or Taliban faction?
It means there is no other god but Allah (a standard slogan on all pro Arab rallies in London) :)

as well the infamous Allahu Akbar! (God is Great! ) to replace the go go go in como rose :)
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by nedlands1 »

Does anyone know what Language the MEC speak?
Mecanese.
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AnRK
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by AnRK »

I thought it was Mecabic?

It's a good thing that they speak classical Arabic if like has been said that it's a kind of blanket Arabic nation language though. It kinda sounds like the equivalent of Latin to Italian, Spanish, French etc, although a bit more widely known then Latin is nowadays, is that about right?
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by AOD_Morph »

mecsican?
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KingLorre
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by KingLorre »

Mecxican?

no seriouslyh, they speak arabic, but how do you define curten arabic as clasic arabic, and do many speak it?
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by AnRK »

KingLorre wrote:no seriouslyh, they speak arabic, but how do you define curten arabic as clasic arabic, and do many speak it?
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Menigmand wrote:They speak classical Arabic - the type found in newspapers and on tv (not the language you will hear actually spoken in any arabic countries).
Salah ad Din wrote:All Arabs, if they have a minimum level of education, should be able to communicate though, by talking classic Arabic, although it would be a very unnatural way of talking.

Many non-Egyptians though, will probably understand Egyptian Arabic, since it has been widely propagated in the Arab world through the televised soap operas from Egypt.
;-)
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Fatal-M »

as u can see the guys told u its arabic .
the MEC are persians and if u wanna use that dialect u will never understand anything out of it , the MEC arabic voices are said in full arabic grammar so u wont find people talking like that in the middle east ,lol.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

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Bullet Rush wrote:the MEC are persians .
They're Arabs, Persians are from Iran (and a few other nearby countries maybe?). Historically Arabs and Persians haven't got on very well either as far as I know, I'd like to think that it's become less of an issue but I don't really know a great deal about it.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

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AnRK wrote:They're Arabs, Persians are from Iran (and a few other nearby countries maybe?). Historically Arabs and Persians haven't got on very well either as far as I know, I'd like to think that it's become less of an issue but I don't really know a great deal about it.
Well, considering that BF2 has MEC maps in Iran (Gulf of Oman) and Afghanistan (Road to Jalalabad), I think it's safe to say that the MEC was originally intended to span virtually the whole Middle East minus Israel. But AFAIK, it's not possible to have multiple languages for one faction.
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Scot »

Cobhris wrote:Well, considering that BF2 has MEC maps in Iran (Gulf of Oman) and Afghanistan (Road to Jalalabad), I think it's safe to say that the MEC was originally intended to span virtually the whole Middle East minus Israel. But AFAIK, it's not possible to have multiple languages for one faction.
Isn't Gulf of Oman based in Oman? It's still Persian, but not Iran ;) Who knows, maybe the Arabs invaded and took over Iran ??
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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

Post by Tannhauser »

Scot wrote:Isn't Gulf of Oman based in Oman? It's still Persian, but not Iran ;) Who knows, maybe the Arabs invaded and took over Iran ??
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight...... :roll:


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Re: What language do the MEC Speak?

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Hey, everyone says this is complete fiction, so anything could happen ;)
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