How do you encode Arabian names?
Some examples: Firoz Shah Tughlaq,Abdul Rahim, Mahmud Ghazni etc
I am able to make some awkward sounding sound alikes.But that’s it.
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Hard without knowing how to properly pronounce them. I had a few come to mind
Firoz Shah Tughlaq,
Fire Oz like Ozzy on fire or Land of Oz on fire. Shh Ahh! Someone shushing someone who is yelling. Tug Lock Tugging a combination lock to open
Abdul Rahim,
Ab duel. A guy with a 6 pack 3 are dueling the other 3 haha. Rahim Raw Ham
Mahmud Ghazni
Ma covered in mud
Gauze wrapped around her knee.
Do you need to have spelling exact?
I haven’t tried this for names but did use it for license plates and it worked pretty good. Using an alphabet Pao separate from your Major Pao and say if you have an animal list it could go like
Mahmud
M- Moose
A- vacuums with nose (anteaters action)
H- flies (horses object)
M Moose
U- sparkles and shimmers (unicorns action)
D- with a dog bone (dog’s object)
Sorry for the late reply, I am struggling with studies these days.
Thanks for the great suggestions.
Especially liked
Rahim Raw Ham
And
Mahmud Ghazni
Ma covered in mud
And thanks for reminding me about alphabet PAO.
Almost forget they exist haha!
I need to memorise some spellings for a test.
From an early age I used to have a common pronounciation along with a “vocalised” pronounciation of any hard words.
So for a word like dilemma,I would have the extra m vocalised, sounding somthing like d-le-ma-ma.This doesn’t always work so I plan to attempt using Alphabetic PAOs.
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I think Shah is king in Persian. Met has a Semitic root meaning to die. I think shah-met is chess, which became “check-mate” in English — “the king died [or was defeated]”. If you can remember the link between “check mate”, an image like king or chess might work.
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That’s a good suggestion. I will try to look for some etymology of the name when I encounter one.Havinf some background knowledge will help my imagination go a little more wild.There any not that many of them to remember anyways.
Joining this forum has proved a blessing to me.I have been able to memorise over 20 pages of facts with varying types of information ranging from dates,numbers to even concepts.With regular revisions I can be assured that If I have memorized it,there is no way I will forget anything in the exam!
My goal is to have 150pages of these facts in my head. The revision volume is manageable for now.I think I will try just revision things while doing daily chores.This is a particular advantage with memory techniques, revision is any time,any where. You just go to the image and unfold it!
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I think you should know meanings
Mahmud is praiseworthy
Ghazbi is city name, meaning is treasure
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I made a list of common English first letters of words: useful for acrostics. Then I forced Arabic sounds to map to the easy English letters - even if they are unalike.
After that, a vocabulary word can have an acrostic made about it which reveals the spelling
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Could you give an example of your technique using one of the names mentioned in previous comments?
I think I know what you mean but not sure.
For Mahmud would it be like moth spelled vertically down off the M and for “a” apple
And then when you review the locations you have the spelling? For sound do you combine English words that have similar sounds like Ma + mood or mud depending on pronunciation?
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Hi, here is an example from my article. I rushed out the article and haven’t looked at it in over a year but…: Th can be Th, Tu or Bl prefixes. Tu and Bl are nothing like Th but they do occur in a lot of English words; so I have a good chance of building an acrostic.
…Returning to my example of TH, B and T for the word ‘stable’, the mapped lookup spellings for those 3 prompts is:
TH, BA, TE
So my title can be “Thick backbone; tense”
That gives me TH, BA and TE which I can match to the characters for TH, B and T. And then I can remember ‘Thabat’.
… Just to add, I was more interested in consonants than vowels.
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