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hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 25 days ago

Does this wordplay actually directly translate from arabic?

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Does this wordplay actually directly translate from arabic?

hellinkilla [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 25 days ago
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sight/insight — I would assume different languages would have different ways to describe

0:46 https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1933682951897681927

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  • LupineTroubles [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    24 days ago

    It does, he says بصر and بصيرة which are sight and insight. It is a fairly common word to mean insight or discernment or even vision.

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      23 days ago

      thank you!

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