The more I’m trying to learn Arabic the more I’m becoming convinced that whoever came up with that script, did so with the express intention to mock learners.
How else can you explain that ج ح and خ all make very different sounds, whilst the sounds for ث and ط are essentially indistinguishable 🙄
@skribe Many different written systems as well. For example in Egypt you have at least the following:
Religious/old Arabic as used in both mosque and Church settings (I don't even know whether these are both using the same language, but I doubt it)
Formal Arabic as used in the news, courts, etc.
Informal Arabic as used in every day settings (and which of course has lots of different dialects - Egypt is large country [though maybe not so large when compared to Australia 😆]).
Each of these have their own grammar and vocabulary. And there'll definitely be people in Egypt who’ll only be able to understand 1 or 2 of these (especially because illeteracy is actually still quite common, so lots of Egyptians really only know informal Arabic).
I’ve just spent quite way too much time scratching my head today thinking ‘I swear doing request()->route('param') used to get me the full model. Why is it only getting me a string now?!
Pretty cool stuff. Though I'm also wondering if leaving the connection open and reusing it repeatedly might have downsides too, especially if I have need to connect to many different hosts?