Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Arabic term or phrase:
خبير خطوط
English translation:
handwriting analyst/ expert
Added to glossary by
Waleed Mohamed
Jan 8, 2005 08:24
19 yrs ago
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Arabic term
خبير خطوط
Arabic to English
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Law (general)
الشخص الذي تُحال إليه المستندات للتأكد من صحة التوقيعات
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +4 | handwriting analyst/ expert | Nesrin |
4 +1 | graphologist | Demosthene |
4 -3 | expert in statistics/in data base | yacine |
Proposed translations
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handwriting analyst/ expert
I'm sorry, I have to disagree with graphologist. A graphologist, according to the dictionary, is "specialist in inferring character from handwriting", something like an astrologist, only working on handwritings.
A handwriting analyst/ expert CAN mean the same thing, but it is also the person who works on establishing whether a signature is forged, when a letter was written, etc, i.e forensic work with in police investigations and the like.
see:
A handwriting analyst who had been a forensic document examiner for the Chicago police believed that there was no match between Maybrick's writing and that ...
www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/ forensics/literary/1.html
A handwriting analyst/ expert CAN mean the same thing, but it is also the person who works on establishing whether a signature is forged, when a letter was written, etc, i.e forensic work with in police investigations and the like.
see:
A handwriting analyst who had been a forensic document examiner for the Chicago police believed that there was no match between Maybrick's writing and that ...
www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/ forensics/literary/1.html
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Comment: "Thanks all colleagues"
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Arabic term (edited):
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graphologist
Typography expert or graphologist
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Ali Khaireddine
50 mins
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neutral |
Mohamed Abdel-Aziz
: well I'm not sure anymore, Nesrin has a point, but a graphologist is a kind of خبير خطوط too
55 mins
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agree |
houari
1 hr
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agree |
A Nabil Bouitieh
3 hrs
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Thanks
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disagree |
Nesrin
: sorry to disagree, please see my suggestion below.
4 hrs
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disagree |
Alaa Zeineldine
: Agree with Nesrin.
4 hrs
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neutral |
AhmedAMS
: Agree with Nesrin
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Arabic term (edited):
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expert in statistics/in data base
I think you need a translation from Arabic into English
Peer comment(s):
disagree |
Mohamed Abdel-Aziz
: what have signatures to do with statistics?
45 mins
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where do you see '"signatures" ?
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disagree |
A Nabil Bouitieh
: Nothing to do with neither.
3 hrs
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disagree |
Alaa Zeineldine
: You seem to have read توقيعات (signatures) as توقعات (expectations).// Sorry. Nothing actually because توقيعات simply means signatures.
4 hrs
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What have "expectations" to do with it ?
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