Friday, February 16, 2018

Is Trump speaking in Arabic code?

President trump tweeted on a 31 may 2013 late-night he started with complaints about the press coverage, and ended the tweet with non-word “covfefe” baffling many. Some people say trump didn’t misspelled a word he is actually speaking in Arabic.
on twitter said:


The #covfefe plot thickens: according to Google Translate, “Cov fe'fe” means سوف فقف “I will stand up” in Arabic. https://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Cov%20fe'fe …


for me as an Arabic speaker, this is absolutely wrong, the sound of  “covfefe” doesn’t mean anything in Arabic, in fact Arabic doesn’t even have the sound “V” and the meaning of I will stand is سأقفsa aqef.” To back up my argument, Rasha Sharif, a linguist and language instructor at the DC-based International Center for Language Studies said. Sharif, who is fluent in multiple Arabic dialects, said “No, the word has nothing to do with the Arabic language.”
 “Covfefe” is not a word, nor is it a Nazi, Israeli, or any other type of acronym. It has no meaning. The President Trump clearly mistyped a tweet, which he later deleted.
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