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How to refuse unwanted solicitations
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:01 pm |
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Quoting libralady: Quoting lady in red: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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Does a threatening smile involve bearing ones teeth?  |
Making one's teeth look like a BEAR??? :-S :-S
No wonder I'm having problems!! 
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:07 pm |
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What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:09 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting libralady: Quoting lady in red: Quoting thehandsom: Quoting longinotti1: THe first time I visited Sultamet, My wife and I were approached by guys wanted to be hired as personal guides
etc. Just saying 'hayir hayir' I found to be ineffective.
Any suggestions about how to be say basically 'leave us alone' without be crude or rude? |
longinotti,
how can you miss this?
hayir means 'belki'(maybe) when a foreigner says it..
It happens to me as well. They think I am a foreigner sometimes. But as soon as I say 'tesekkurler sagol', they leave us alone..
I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I am practising this expression. I am ok with the 'slight frown' but not quite mastering the 'threatening smile'
Please pm me a visual depiction!
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Does a threatening smile involve bearing ones teeth? |
Making one's teeth look like a BEAR??? :-S :-S
No wonder I'm having problems!! |
Ok, "baring" ones teeth! Slip of the long nails
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:17 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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Just tell them and walk on. They are so clever though! Once in Kusadasi a street seller started saying things to us in English. I said 'Ingiliz değilim - Isveçliyim, on the assumption that most of them speak English and maybe Dutch or German. He ran after us speaking in Swedish!! It was so funny that we stopped to talk to him (in English) but he still didn't manage to sell us anything!!
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:40 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:40 pm |
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And I shouted back: Alaska. Ha, ha.
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:44 pm |
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Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom |
Well I have asked him to pm me one - but nothing doing so far
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 03:46 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: And I shouted back: Alaska. Ha, ha. |
Ros this looks like the punchline to a joke! Did you leave something out??
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 04:22 pm |
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Quoting Roswitha: What do you say when Turks want your attention by saying WHERE ARE YOU FROM? Should one ignore them or not? Best way is to continue walking.
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Once I though "Far away" was a pretty clever way to avoid those guys. But when I heard one of them saying "Norway?" I decided to change the strategy. The next time I got the WHERE ARE YOU FROM question, I said ANKARA and went on leaving the guy baffled
Ignoring them doesn't really work. I had one follow me almost all the length of Istiklal Caddesi although all I'd say was "No Turkish" - the guy didn't speak any English but was persistent in trying to get my telephone number. I don't remember how I lost him finally but it was so tedious that I'd rather go for sik*** git than go through something like that once more
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:15 pm |
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Quoting lady in red: Quoting magnadea: Quoting thehandsom: I might be frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips while I am saying those words though.. |
I have been practising this in the mirror but I am just not getting it!
Perhaps you could be so kind as to post a photograph thehandsom |
Well I have asked him to pm me one - but nothing doing so far |
I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys..
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28 Apr 2008 Mon 05:25 pm |
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Quoting thehandsom: I have taken a picture of myself "frowning slightly with a threatening smile on my lips"..
I am pming it to you guys.. |
OMG did you have to be naked in the picture?  
You are certainly hairy!
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