Comments on: Tunisian Football Terminology 101

By: Rami

Rami — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:24:31 +0000

No problem Achraf. They ask him about his ambitions with Tunisia and he said to qualify for the World Cup and the African Cup. Basically its just saying that he will be available for the National team should Coelho call on him one day. He also says that he was offered a roster spot by Lemerre in the Frenchman’s final match but he didn’t want to come because he wanted a little vacation etc.

I took the liberty of putting it through google translate so you can read the rest. It’s actually a pretty good translation. When you try to go from German to English it yields much worse (yet funnier) results.

http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infosfoot.net%2Ffr%2Farticles%2Farticle.php%3Fid_article%3D286&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=fr&tl=en

By: Achraf

Achraf — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:41:07 +0000

Hey Rami, did you see the article on infosfoot about Santos.
( http://www.infosfoot.net/fr/articles/article.php?id_article=286 )? I know what the title means with Santos saying that “Coelho called him and then responded”. Can you give me more information, I can not understand some of the french. Thanks

By: Rami

Rami — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:38:26 +0000

Well hopefully not 7dash el 9oddem then the goalie would be in attack also lol! Hahah, I know what you mean though buddy. It’s all about balance

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:43:17 +0000

Great article rami , i love my country and its unique language!

Btw i learned some things i didnt know before like 3achra l’tali, basicly i have seen enough of 3achra l’tali so hope coelho makes it i7dash el qoddam

By: omar

omar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:36:58 +0000

yea i no u guys speak a totgally different stlye of Arabic but the differece is crazy!!!!!!!! basicly the only words i understood were ruus and passe.. header or head and pass..lol

By: Rami

Rami — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:07:55 +0000

Steve, hopefully when you travel North Africa I’ll be there with you and you won’t need any of this hahaa.

Omar and Tamim, as my friend Momo said Tunisia is very different from 5aliji Arabic and Egyptian arabic. When I went to Cairo I had to totally switch things up and revert to “Mousalsel” arabic haha. We get so many of Egyptian movies that we understand you guys but the opposite is not true. We have so much french and the morphology gets crazy: Arabized French words, Frenchified Arab words. It’s a big jumble but I love it because our slang is arguably the craziest out there.

By: Tamim

Tamim — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:49:07 +0000

great idea rami, i found it a little bit difficult to understand this getting technical part!!!!;)

By: Momo

Momo — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:26:41 +0000

3aychou Rami glad you you added mine up there..and as always great post.

Omar..where u from dude? if you’re Egyptian then you should already know we Tunisians talk very differently from you guys (and all other Arabic people too)..so u probably shouldn’t expect similarities in football glossary either. Thanks for stopping by man

By: omar

omar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:45:20 +0000

wow i thought the wrds wud be closer to tht of egyptian football but ther are barely any tht r the same…most of which skander mentioned..the rest sound really weird!its like 3 languages in one!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:30 +0000

nice post man… I’m saving these in a word document in case im ever back in North Africa.