Dhabih Eng writes in Farsi not Arabic ;)

[Gunner]

This isn't really "rumor or speculation", just information but I didn't know where else to put it hehe.

When my older brother played the CS:S beta he noticed those posters and writings on the wall and let me know that it was indeed Farsi and not Arabic. He couldn't translate all of them but one of them said "CS Source rocks!" something along those lines, the rest was really hard to read because we were playing on a laptop with low texture detail.

And yesterday I noticed the writing in the lower right hand corner of the white-board picture taken from Shmozy's trip to Valve. I had that translated too but it's just jibberish this time around, some random letters "KKHD".

I learned that it was Dhabih Eng behind the writings, Senior artist over at Valve who is half-persian. That's all, just thought I'd let people know and correct the mistake since the last thread discussing the subject was locked and left the impression that it was Arabic.

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?p=714392#post714392

 

[sevenredseven]

hmm?

Dhabih Eng (pronounced ZA-bee)

with the Windows Character Table everyone can identify/translate some symbols.

it's right-to-left, isn't it?

what i "found":

ﺡ Hah (isolated form?)

ﻥ Noon

ﺤ Hah (middle form?)
or
ﺭ Reh
or
د Dal

 

[Sickmind]

Nice job, thats for the update!

 

[Bait]

Hmm....Im not familiar with that language. No wonder I couldn't make out what it was.

Well, there has to be someone in the community who can read it.

 

[Gunner]

Hmm....Im not familiar with that language. No wonder I couldn't make out what it was.

Well, there has to be someone in the community who can read it.

I asked my father to read it and he said it's just random letters. As for me I can speak persian but I can't read farsi :|

Hah-Noon-Hah-Reh-Dal doesn't sound familiar at all though, I'll try to figure it out if there's anything there hehe, thanks seven

 

[sevenredseven]

I asked my father to read it and he said it's just random letters. As for me I can speak persian but I can't read farsi :|

Hah-Noon-Hah-Reh-Dal doesn't sound familiar at all though, I'll try to figure it out if there's anything there hehe, thanks seven

oh. not in that order. some letters look like in the arabic windows character table. others don't even show up there. strange indeed. perhaps that's why Dhabih Eng said "A OK" on the other white board after his fellows at valve wrote this strange message on this white board.

 

[Maxi]

Now that's pretty cool there.

 

[Adrien C]

Sorry, I only speack French, Spanish and English.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Sorry, I only speack French, Spanish and English.

Much more than me

English only here really... and I guess a tiny bit of French....


Neway, Thanks for the update.

 

[ktimekiller]

korean, and engligh here, oh by the way..... AZN PRIDE

 

[Demon Wraith]

I speak the language of penguins!

We don't buy crazy here, we're all stocked up.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

thanks for this little update Para, very much appreciated

 

[Pizdorf]

oh my GOD how could they get that wrong???

oh and btw Demon Wraith

We don't buy crazy here, we're all stocked up.

I just saw that movie :cheese:

 

[Ecthe|ioN]

Nice information Thank you.