Zompist Bboard Again

I found these in a fantasy novel; can anyone translate them? I've included what seems to be a translation of the Chinese one just in case.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x-2GaE ... sp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jqpc7V ... sp=sharing

Ugh; unjoined Arabic characters.

The translation matches the Chinese in the second instance, however. The poem is "Ode to the Plum Blossom" (卜算子-咏楳) by the Song Dynasty poet Lù Yóu (陸游), in case you're interested in comparing other translations.

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In the same book, another piece of what looked like Arabic turned out to be Arabic letters,but in isolated form, and written from left to right.

Nobody at all? I find that very surprising.

Sorry! Yep, for the Arabic, the letters are unjoined, and they don’t appear to make any sense. (Although since they’re unjoined, its nigh-impossible to figure out the word boundaries, which makes trying to see if it’s actually Arabic words much more difficult). My guess, not being terribly proficient in Arabic, is that this is gobbledygook … but I could be wrong. Best case scenario, some words might be real, but the person writing them doesn’t know how Arabic works at all.

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 27, 2021 10:50 am Ugh; unjoined Arabic characters.

I *know*, right?! It’s such a gross feeling to read that.

There's spaces in the line though, and these should be word boundaries.

آيا نم نياز به حس شوخ طبعي دارم؟

Google Translate identifies it as Persian, translating it as "Do I need a sense of humor?" or "Do I need to feel good?". No idea as for its accuracy though.

Well, I suspect that if it was complete nonsense, Google Translate wouldn't be able to do much with it.

I only have beginner's Persian, but I recognise some words - e.g. da:ram "I have" at the end of the sentence. So GT's identification seems to be correct.