They certainly are not. I speak Levantine Arabic and learned MSA in school. I could understand Egyptian Arabic and Khaliji Arabic, but I have no chance understanding anything west of Egypt. There's a lot of extra words, even the simple words are different a lot of the time.

I traveled once to Egypt and the tour guide was delighted that I spoke Arabic. We started speaking in Arabic, but after a few minutes we switched back to English because we couldn't form complete sentences without any of us saying "What?".

Arabic language letters change based on their position in the word. And there's multiple fonts for it.

You could maybe put your website behind a captcha? Google's recaptcha works behind the scene, so it won't affect normal users.

I find competitive programming pretty fun. If you want to learn X, you can start solving problems with X instead of a language you know. I use codeforces and used to solve problems on Project Euler as well.

Advent of Code will start in a couple of days.

> Just to replace it with what he calls "payment verified", which basically means you have 8$ and means to send it to twitter. Which apparently is worth less than nothing. I keep seeing this everywhere, that the switch from being verified to "payment verified" made that possible. It was possible to do this attack before the change. It just made it easier but also traceable with the payment info.

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Have you tried looking into the Ellis Island records for your Great Grandfather? https://heritage.statueofliberty.org/

I was able to find some of my ancestors who came to the US from those records. People usually came by ship and New York City was one of the main points of entries to the US.

Thanks for the tip! I just tried it quickly, but will need to try many more combinations. The last name of my Great Grandfather is Khouri, which means Priest, and is very, very common. However, when we found his record in 1925 in Canada, it was spelled "Elkhoui". Note the missing 'r', and they attached "El" to it.

So as you can see, I would never have guessed it, and we found it by manually searching by timeline for anyone from "Lebanon", or "Syria", or even "Turkey", as data entry was usually done by just a person that may have never heard of that language, and just "guessed". Remember, IDs are a modern invention, so back then, it was not standardized.