A NO NO in Bingo!!!

I didn't know this.. but i thought pass this little bit of info on..

I can read and understand 3 different languages.. Spanish, Italian, and Basic Arabic, the arabic is something that i have recently picked up within the last few years.. haha i bet you all didn't know that :P..

Anyways while in a Bingo site unless the site offers it in other languages, you are not allowed to type any other language but english.

Another player came in and typed a few words in arabic i answered back to help the person and right away got jumped on by chat personell...

"ONLY ENGLISH IS TO BE USED HERE YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED ANY OTHER LANGUAGE"

Big giant capped letters!!!  :'( I apologized quickly and explained i did not know this..

Wow. I definately didn't know you spoke arabic :P

I also didn't know you couldn't speak in different languages in bingo chat :o

What if it's someone that doesn't speak english ??? in a another country maybe?

:-*

VERY difficult language to read, write and speak.. well for me it was.. in general.. with spanish reading is like speaking it, simple also it is a roll of the tongue, on the other hand arabic it would take me forever to explain the alpha-bet, vowels, and how to pronounce them, but it is spoken from back of the tongue or throat and held on the sound.. for instance..

hala = welcome, for us we would say ha la, in arabic ha is spoke with a deeper breath (kind of like how a cat hisses, or when you check your breath in your hand but coming from throat) and la the a is almost sounded twice within the same sound with the back of the throat (la ah) quickly cut short...

at first i always felt like i was choking on the words or almost as if i was hackin a loogey, then over time as i relaxed, it got easier.

some of the sites do have that posted as a rule "english only" but it is posted under chat etiquette, you'd have to dig through through the rules i did find that out later.. i think mostly english speaking people do join the english sites but it could happen.. and they get banned and thrown out and won;t know why :(

Very impressive Imagin.  I had no idea either.

"English" only is standard stuff for chat - same applies to poker rooms.  In poker rooms, you can have your chat taken away from you. I'm not sure that it would make a huge amount of difference in bingo though - it's not as though you can give away your "hand".

Are you self taught for these languages?

blue

Imagin- I know quite a bit of arabic myself, but never bothered to learn how to write it, though the language is similar to spanish don't you think in that they go by who they are talking to- man or woman.  Habibi, Habipti.. etc.  That helped me when I was figuring out the basics.  I was married to a Jordanian for a few years when I was younger and learned A LOT.  I love the language, and use it whenever I can (when we went to Vegas, the cab driver was from Jordan) we got to chat about all the yummy food lol.

Blue, i grew up speaking spanish but it was not the main language, my gramma (she was spanish) spoke it and most i learned from her, after she passed it kind of died in the family, in school i aced it.. kind of weird how we evolved from all spanish to all english, my mother and gramma were fluent. Italian came later after i met my real father and his family, i became close with my younger brother, i'm not real good at italian, i can understand more then i can speak. Arabic i learned from a man i had a very close relationship with from the middle east who lived in the US for a while, best teacher you could ever have, long and heartbreaking story.  But i continued it with books and programs, knew it i was advancing my education greatly, as it is one of the oldest languages in our ancient history.. i just loved it.

Imagin- I know quite a bit of arabic myself, but never bothered to learn how to write it, though the language is similar to spanish don't you think in that they go by who they are talking to- man or woman.  Habibi, Habipti.. etc.  That helped me when I was figuring out the basics.  I was married to a Jordanian for a few years when I was younger and learned A LOT.  I love the language, and use it whenever I can (when we went to Vegas, the cab driver was from Jordan) we got to chat about all the yummy food lol.

Mine was from SA he was from the city of Riyadh, an absolutely amazing man.. very intelliegent, highly talented, very deep and cultured, taught me alot of history as well.. sometimes i'd cry at the stories he would tell me

I know exactly what you mean imagin when you say "very deep and cultured". I really do enjoy other cultures, and the passion. I love the Spanish culture and ethnic traditions. I have always said there is something so passionate in some cultures........i have cried too.

To talk to someone from the grass roots of their homeland, who have lived there their whole life and the stories they tell has always amazed me. Complete passion.

Lips