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MS Word 2007 and the translation of "and" "و"
Thread poster: libhf
libhf
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Sep 23, 2012

Greetings to all my colleagues in this forum!

Ever since Arabic became a written language we have been connecting واو الإضافة to the word that follows it when translating the word "and".

I am translation into Arabic a document in Word 2007. Word is throwing in the red alert for the word and suggesting that it should be written separately. This could be a dumb question on my part, and that I should ignore the linguists at Microsoft.

Being the doub... See more
Greetings to all my colleagues in this forum!

Ever since Arabic became a written language we have been connecting واو الإضافة to the word that follows it when translating the word "and".

I am translation into Arabic a document in Word 2007. Word is throwing in the red alert for the word and suggesting that it should be written separately. This could be a dumb question on my part, and that I should ignore the linguists at Microsoft.

Being the doubting person that I am, what is happening here? A Microsoft error or something much more revolutionary in Arabic orthography?

Best regards,


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ahmadwadan.com
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تجاهل ميكروسوفت Sep 23, 2012


أنا أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت وورد في هذه الحالات.

أنا لا أترك مسافة بعد واو العطف أبدا...ولن أفعل.
 
libhf
libhf
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تجاهل مايكروسوفت وورد Sep 23, 2012

[quote]ahmadwadan.com wrote:

أنا أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت وورد في هذه الحالات.

أنا لا أترك مسافة بعد واو العطف أبدا...ولن أفعل.
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جزاك الله على هذا الجواب المطمئن
 
Mohamed Kamel
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وأنا كذلك Sep 23, 2012

[quote]Hikmat Faraj wrote:

ahmadwadan.com wrote:

أنا أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت وورد في هذه الحالات.

أنا لا أترك مسافة بعد واو العطف أبدا...ولن أفعل.
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جزاك الله على هذا الجواب المطمئن



وأنا كذلك أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت في هذه النقطة.

محمد كامل
 
libhf
libhf
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قاموس مايروسوفت Sep 23, 2012

يبدو أن قاموس مايكروسوفت العربي يحتوي على أخطاء كثيرة.

[quote]Mohamed Kamel wrote:

[quote]Hikmat Faraj wrote:

ahmadwadan.com wrote:

أنا أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت وورد في هذه الحالات.

أنا لا أترك مسافة بعد واو العطف أبدا...ولن أفعل.
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جزاك الله على هذا الجواب المطمئن


وأنا كذلك أتجاهل المصحح اللغوي لميكروسوفت في هذه النقطة.

محمد كامل
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