Call of Duty and Language

Graphic vs. linguistic realism

March 21, 2011 @ 7:53 am

Kumail Nanjiani discusses the Karachi street signs in Call of Duty:

I've never any version of Call of Duty, and couldn't locate any street-sign images to check Kumail's claim that the signs are in Arabic. If this is true, though, it summarizes several aspects of the modern world.

Source: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3039