Hi, Kestrel.

--- Kestrel  wrote:

> He writes in English fairly well but with a lot of
> typoes (or simple misunderstanding of the language) 

More likely a bit of "code mixing".  Arabic spelling is highly
phonetic; there is no standard spelling for many words and they are
written the way they sound.  So if two people are talking about Um
Qasr, they would spell it they way they hear themselves say it.  In
English it should be spelled Oom Kasser.  

Standardized spelling is a western phenomenon we force on arabic
words.  When Regan was setting up to bomb Libya way back when
print-media news reports sometimes had "Khaddafi" and sometimes
"Qaddafi".  And, I think, a couple of other spellings. They finally
settled on Qaddafi.

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