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What does the text on that beautiful Strawberry Elephant creature say? Looks like it's in Farsi
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It's Arabic. The pic is a pun on "Good morning" which is written sabah el-fol. The picture says sabah el-farawla which roughly translates to "Good Strawberring".
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Wouldn’t even call it a pun, as someone pointed out already. I’m going to sacrifice the joke in the name of explaining it.
This meme says Morning of Strawberries (صباح الفراولة) which is both clunky (Arabic’s got a poetic quality and these two words put together just intuitively do not work that way. It has the meter of a punchline if that makes sense) and silly, but with the textured elephant and the 13x12 resolution as you can probably guess it’s just a surreal meme.
But now you know why it’s a surreal meme.
Come back next week for the much less wholesome next episode of Arabic forwards from Arabic grandma: videos alleging the Jews invented homosexuality, cancer, and sex-
Great write up! Thnx
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This is PRECISELY why I'm a big fan of explaining jokes. Most of us wouldn't have understood any of this context.
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I think it's just the Arabic for "strawberry elephant"? Hard to tell at that resolution
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It says "strawberry morning", lit. "morning of strawberry" (might be misspelled??)
It's a variation on common Arabic morning greetings, "good morning", "morning of roses", "morning of light", etc.-
Oh I see
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