Why do I get car sick in taxis here? I was fine in the suicidal Egyptiam taxis but every time I'm in a cab here for more than a few minutes I feel awful. I had a meeting near the sooq today and almost threw up when I got out of the cab. Is it just me?

Yes its just you...

Yep - just you

you're pregger...!

Souq.

hmmm - I thought it was Souk

I think it's actually 'Suq'


Anyway - it def ain't sooq

Golly that's a new one .... I was just thinking of the ARTE SOUK

The arabic word is spelled with a "q" not a "k" سوق so it should end in a q the but I think the correct transliteration is Souq....

my initial response was from google and souq.com so who knows?!?

Mirriam webster likes the translation from arabic 'suq' to english 'souk' and doesn't list souq.......which doesn't make much sense to me unless translation has become phonetic.

and...yeah - i know the arabic suq is actually not made up of an 's', a 'u' and a 'q'...but really it's a bunch of squiggly lines.

just to join this geek fest

From Arabic سُوق (sūq), from Aramaic שוקא or ܫܘܩܐ (šūqā’), “‘street, market’”), from Akkadian sūqu (“‘street’”), from sāqu (“‘narrow’

Yeah, makes absolutely no sense. I done a degree in Arabic but never wrote transliterated Arabic so I could be wrong

I knew you'd be here at some point!

So what's the correct translation to english?


Anyway - i don't get sick in taxi's. Anxious / shocked / terrified, yes often, but sick no.

did

Wow - from Maltese ...... SUQ = market and saqu (Narrow) is so close to sqaq which means an alley which is narrow

Oh well most of us know that maltese is 65% arabic but written in the "english" alphabet!!

There you go - learn something every day