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Is there an extra character in this sentence?

looks ok I think (at least to me)

The first word, hla, has an extra character after it. I believe the other day Samer said about it that it's probably a bug with the display (I found a similar problem with one of his sentences, so he simply deleted the extra character at the end of the word). Maybe it had to do with the extra alef of the tanwin fatha, I'm not sure at the moment.

by the way, تزوّجتني - is it in the meaning of future here, although the form is past?

the meaning is probably derived from هلّا as a grammatical particle not from the tense...but don't know much about that other than that it's أداة تحضيض

>that it's probably a bug with the display

not sure how it's displayed on your end, it looks fine on my browser (firefox 7)

Thanks.
Do I read it correctly:
Hala tazawwajtini?

I can now see it's a form which I know in Arabic to refer to the future.

Yes, there is an extra alef after "hala". I'm using Firefox 7, the last update.

>Do I read it correctly:
>Hala tazawwajtini?

more like hallaa it's actually هل+لا (probably)

>Yes, there is an extra alef after "hala"

an extra aleph as in هلاا ?

Yes, exactly, as in هلاا
Could you erase that?

that's the problem I can't see it, can you try doing that for me?

Yes, it's more like halla(a), هل+لا, thanks for the correction :)

Yes, I'll correct the extra character now, just check after me to make sure it looks the same as before.

oh damn so the shaddah is being displayed as an aleph?

I had to delete the shadda, as I couldn't change it otherwise (whenever I tried to delete the extra aleph, it became "hal", with a missing aleph...).

Yes, probably that's what happens, the shaddah probably causes this bug...

that's one weird display bug

It is indeed! :)
So be it. At least now I know where's the culprit when there is an extra aleph in one of the Arabic sentences... ;)