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"يا كَري هَل زَوْجَتِك جودي مُحاسِبة؟"
Translation:Carrie, is your wife Judy an accountant?
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Wow, the first time in Duolingo course I saw a sentence that cover homosexuality and what a choice, in Arabic Course
Yeah, I was like.. read the words again and again, and then confirmed the word options.
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Personally, I'm happy for Judy and Carrie. I wish them all the happiness in the world and all the cold chicken they can eat in their big garage.
Happiness and love is a universal language. You don't need a green owl to teach you that.
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So one of them is an accountant and another is a professor? Nice double income lesbian couple! :D
What's the Arabic for, "And this is the precise moment the fundies got their panties in a knot"?
Ok, at first there were "weird hungry Lebanese engineer and weird Dutch doctor" Now we have a lesbian couple here.What's next interesting?
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I think one of the Duolingo characters is a crossdresser, too. Unless the skirt is really a kilt.
This is crazy, my sister was confused when she answered this question she asked me if Judy and Carrie are of the same sex She's only 7 years old Please there are kids taking these lessons be mindful of what you put there
As in homosexuality must be hidden from kids? Come on now, homosexuality has been around forever and always will be. You're contributing to keeping it taboo. Take a chill pill.
So crazy!!! I thought They changed already! But still same!
We (Muslim) never accept homosexual!
And Duo put in Arabic course?! Insane!!!
Astaghfirullah.
A bunch of fragile Muslims easily offended by something that has been part of humanity WAY before Islam and will always be. Get your head out of the sand and take a chill pill.
Right isn't it? I know that duolingo would serve this kind of sin that they proud to show of (bcs he has that disgusting campaign). I'm getting suck about this kind of pride. It is an ill!!! LGBTQ is such a virus!! It is even worse than Covid-19. The worst disgusting disease ever.
Carrie? Judy ? I believe that this sentence has a misleading construction that unnecessary in a language course.
Right. Carrie and Judy have been a same sex couple since Duolingo started offering Arabic.
there are thousands of masculine names that there is no need to use ambiguous names
They must be in UAE? Maybe Saudi Arabia? The other 48 countries under Arab occupation would imprison or slaughter them.
I think we were doing just fine with the sentences talking about male and female characters. It's completely uncalled for to put this in a language course;ESPECIALLY ARABIC. PLEASE REMOVE THE SENTENCE FROM THE COURSE @DUOLINGO.
Again and again and again! Completely unnecesary to use LGTBQ agenda in learning a language, Duo!
Carrie, is Judy your wife an accountant? This is was marked as incorrect. I don’t understand why.
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I think it's just that the sentence would've made more sense as "Carrie, is your wife Judy an accountant?" Idk it's just confusing wording. Technically you aren't wrong
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English speakers say, "Is your wife Judy an accountant?" General noun (wife) followed by specific noun (Judy). I would not ask that way, although it is correct. I would just ask, "Is your wife an accountant," because the husband (of course Carrie and Judy are both female, so...anyway) already knows his (...) wife's name. Or, "Is Judy and accountant?" However, we have to follow Duolingo's sentance formula. With 2 more commas your sentence would actually be acceptable. "Carrie, is Judy, your wife, an accountant?" But again, we have to follow Duolingo's formula.
I applaude the progressives, but the english wording is confusing me. Are we not supposed to care about constructing proper english translations? Sometimes the correct answer is just a bunch of words mashed toghether.
Some people don't have a choice about their lives being "controversial".
Sorry, what's controversial here? Homosexuality has been around for much longer than Islam itself. Hard to understand why so many people get triggered so easily with something that is simply part of the human nature. Why create so much resistance around the topic of homosexuality when there is absolutely nothing you can do about it as an individual. Why not simply accept that some people are not attracted to the opposite sex and move on to something more productive in life? Better yet, why not being happy for them, and for being and embracing who they truly are? Nothing controversial here brother. I truly feel pain for all gay Muslims being conflicted by who they are and by living in fear of what could happen to them in several countries.
Here to leave a friendly reminder that a language course acknowledging the existence of non-heterosexual people isn't 'political' or 'trying to confuse people'. Language is a tool used to describe reality, and reality includes lesbian couples and other lgbtq people. Whether or not you are willing to acknowledge and respect that reality says more about you than it does this course.
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Judy is female so Carrie is suppose to be male but in this case زوجتَك should be with a dash above the ت not under it
This is funny how biased our mind is. Of course Duo Linguo is educating us and not just languages. And this is clearly an lgbt move stop saying Carrie is a male it is clearly not since we can guess the gender with arabic word construction..
People who finds this sentence normal for the cursus might be naive (because they would probably complain the same against Duo if it was a sentence against their beliefs) and people who complain about it just find or create an app with neutral sentences if it does not exist.
Complaining won't change anything now let's study !
Sorry i just got "peaced" off :))
I agree that Arabic is rather difficult to include at least at the beginning dubious meanings until a better language solvency is acquired. I do not know now is Carrie is man or woman.
You can see that she's a woman, you can see it because the gender is shown in "wife" or "زَوْجَتِك". If Carrie was a he itd be "زَوْجَتَك", these constructions have been worked on in this course already.
Stop being intolerant and close-minded for something that is purely part of our humanity. Accept and move on.
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Well...nontraditional pairing has been documented within many of species. Laysan albatross, bottlenose dolphins, flour beetles, sheep, giraffe, many others. It's not usually a lifelong partnership, though. Mainly in humans and in domestic sheep.
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The format is different on the actual practice page than it is on here (the Leave a comment page). Doesn't help one bit!
Please duolingo you spread a virus through this sentence. This is not even a pride
A virus? Please provide scientific, peer-reviewed, evidence. Until then, you may want to have a check-in with yourself and how much of a good human being you think you are. Millions of people are suffering around the world and fear for their lives because of the intolerance, narrow-mindedness, prejudice and bigotry of people like you.
We're trying to learn a complicated language so try not to confuse us with this kind of sentances. Classical couples please.
Confusing in what sense? Like you now feel attracted to same-sex individuals? Come on, your homophobia has nothing to do with whether you can learn a "complicated language" or not. Just move on and realize homosexuality is simply a part of our human nature.
Probably soon will come all kind of incestic and pedophilic sentences here as well.. i really hope that not .
Utterly absurd. Do you even realize there have been homosexual individuals since there have been humans on this planet? Has nothing to do with incest or pedophilia, please prove me wrong (scientific, peer-reviewed, literature).
@Duo, remove gay campaign. You are oppressing other [healthy] people's lives !!!!!
PLEASE REMOVE THE SENTENCE FROM THE COURSE. THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING @DUOLINGO.
