04 September 2009

Why do I think of these things?


Iftar is the breaking of the fast after Ramadan. This ad at the Camp LSA McDonald's (Kuwait) aims at the Muslim audience. One thing caught my attention: the use of the emoticon. I see the use of the colon and right parenthesis to represent a smile sideways :) I see this same combination used in the Arabic ad, which I found puzzling. Since Arabic reads right to left, shouldn't the order of the punctuation be reversed?

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