The arabic Ana “Yes” voiceline is wrong. It says “Tamam” (تمام) Which roughly means ‘ok’, ‘understood’ or ‘alright’. It doesn’t mean yes. It should be نعم and/or ايوه (Na’am, Aywa). Hopefully it gets fixed because it doesn’t make sense now.
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Blizzard right now: 
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At LEAST 95% of the playerbase would have never noticed without google X’D This is hardly game breaking, but interesting still.
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You mean comms “Yes”?
I don’t think it’s wrong given your description. I mean, I guess that depends on what you use ‘Yes’ for, but if you are answering “Group up with me”, “I need healing” or “___ wants to attack the objective”, doesn’t the way it works now make more sense?
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That’s where I’m at. I don’t think it makes sense to choose the other word. But my Arabic isn’t very great. Maybe I’m missing something?
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It’s not wrong and in fact it’s even better.
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We already have a voiceline for that. It’s the “Acknowledged” voiceline. My idea is that maybe the move the “Tamam” voiceline there and add the actual arabic “yes” lines to replace it.
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Ah, I see. I guess that makes sense.
How is it better? It literally doesn’t mean yes. It means alright. So I think it should be moved to the “Acknowledged” voiceline, that way it can still be in the game and it would make more sense to us Arabic players.
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When anna does nano “when reapper in video!” (sounds like)
they never read forums. go to reddit
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Maybe she just doesn’t give a crap about the question.
“There are enemies flanking left! Are you ready to heal?”
“Alright, yeah”
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These are also all variations of saying “yes” in a way. I guess it really depends on the context of what you’re replying to.
I also feel like the voice actor who voices Ana would know the difference as she was born and raised in Egypt.
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Yeah seriously, why isn’t it Aywa? I’m don’t speak Arabic at all, but I have heard this word so much that I do think that like Si and Oui it’s an intenationally recognizable Yes.
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While they’re at it they could give her some automatic voicelines when she’s attacked like other supports have calling for help. I don’t understand why Ana doesn’t have this feature and the others do, especially since the appropriate lines are recorded and in game.
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So it’s like Brigitte’s “I’m on it!” when choosing “Understand”.
its been there since like the release of the game
don’t expect them to change it
Also, i believe Ana’s Sorry voiceline is wrong as well:
She says “malish” (معليش) which, according to some of my Arabic friends means “it’s okay” or “it’s alright”.
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In my arabic family, we all say the common arabic “Ehhh” instead of “yes” even when people speak english to us. LOL
I can’t find any of yes voiceline on the overwatchpedia and it was updated july 13 of this year.
One would think updated meant updated.