Talk:Bab-el-Mandeb

message: Should not all magnitudes be expressed in the International System of Units? (Brunotaut (talk) 02:29, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Article could use a helpful map. Bastie 21:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: This version of the name is not mentioned. But it is elsewhere in Wiki. Myrvin (talk) 16:42, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gate of Grief 

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message: In section Movement out of Africa crossing the Bab-el-Mandeb straits is a matter of speculation. Or heavenly intervention? Anyway, "cn" to remove or support speculation. Kortoso (talk) 20:09, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crossing teh Red Sea? 

message: The WP:Commonname for this strait is by far the "Bab el-Mandeb". "Mandeb Strait" is not anywhere near as common . Middayexpress (talk) 18:29, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I quite agree. But I think it should be Bab-el-Mandeb rather than Bab el-Mandeb.--Lubiesque (talk) 20:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

text: "Strait of Djibouti" and "Bab al-Mandab" (with an "a" near the end) are both other common names. Should they be mentioned? Maybe redirected? 66.210.172.71 (talk) 18:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Bab el-Mandeb

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Not a historical term (maybe used informally at the time).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.222.153.46 (talk) 01:49, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom in 1799 

message: I added "In "Bab-el-Mandeb", "Bab" refers to "gate" while "Mandeb" refers to "lamentation"." to the "Name" section, because I spent quite a bit of time searching around before I found cofirmation from Google Translate that "Bab" means/refers to "gate" and "Mandeb" refers to "lamentation" and not vice versa. The intro contains "lit" which when moused over causes a pop up of "literal translation" (it was only after I paid extremely close attention, while I was editing, that I noticed I *could* mouse over the word "lit." (the dotted line under it is easy to miss, and it was only when I noticed that "lit." was not in the editing window that I was able to figure out eventually that I could mouse over the "lit." in the article)) but it wasn't clear to me that this implied that he word order is the same. Ideally, the pop-up would be made 1. easier to notice as an option, and 2. specify that "literal translation" means "same word meanings and order". But I probably wouldn't have permission to do that even if I knew how, which I don't. Polar Apposite (talk) 19:52, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: I edited the "name" section to clarify that "Bab" means "gate".

message: The first map in the article seems to show a huge lake in northern Ethiopia that extends across the border into Eritrea (which in reality does not exist. Should a better map be found? Polar Apposite (talk) 20:10, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first map is a bit misleading.