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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:19 pm |
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It's not wrong calip! 
I've heard and read it.
It's very rarely used, but still it's a correct word, it means you accept something, you agree etc.
Forexample:
"Başıyla evetlemek", to say yes with shaking your head.
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:21 pm |
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Quoting mltm: It's not wrong calip!
I've heard and read it.
It's very rarely used, but still it's a correct word, it means you accept something, you agree etc.
Forexample:
"Başıyla evetlemek", to say yes with shaking your head. |
I am sure that there are rare words in every language - there are a huge number of rare words in English.......but personally I try and use them in appropriate situations 
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:27 pm |
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Quoting mltm: It's not wrong calip!
I've heard and read it.
It's very rarely used, but still it's a correct word, it means you accept something, you agree etc.
Forexample:
"Başıyla evetlemek", to say yes with shaking your head. |
Where are you from?
I am about to learn a new word in Turkish
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:32 pm |
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Quoting caliptrix: I am about to learn a new word in Turkish |
Before I started learning Türkçe I tried to learn a new English word everyday - I don't try so hard now as I have lots and lots of Türkçe words to learn :-S
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:38 pm |
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I was born and went to school here Maybe,it's because I don't read a lot, but when I come across a new word, I give a lot of attention and look it up in the dictionary, and try to put it in my head till I learn the word, and ofcourse its usage. And there're still a lot more to learn.
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 08:54 pm |
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Yes, most of us (including me) use just the same few hundred words in our daily life, but still there's always a place to show our wide vocabulary, and when the time comes it helps so much, because more words mean more efficient expression, there's no other way (except some situations) to express ourselves better. That's why I feel myself very insufficient and silly in a foreign language, and I become frustrated because I cannot express myself that well!
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 09:03 pm |
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Quoting mltm: I was born and went to school here Maybe,it's because I don't read a lot, but when I come across a new word, I give a lot of attention and look it up in the dictionary, and try to put it in my head till I learn the word, and ofcourse its usage. And there're still a lot more to learn.
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where do you refer as "here"? city / country?
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 09:15 pm |
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Quoting mltm: Yes, most of us (including me) use just the same few hundred words in our daily life |
Do Turks really only use a few hundred words in daily life???
I read a study into English a few years ago and it was something like 4000 words in regular usage for people with little command of the language, 10000 words for most people and upto 25000 words for people with above average communication skills :-S
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 09:54 pm |
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Quoting bod: Quoting mltm: Yes, most of us (including me) use just the same few hundred words in our daily life |
Do Turks really only use a few hundred words in daily life???
I read a study into English a few years ago and it was something like 4000 words in regular usage for people with little command of the language, 10000 words for most people and upto 25000 words for people with above average communication skills :-S |
I found a newspaper article about it as well.
http://www.sabah.com.tr/2004/07/28/gnd104.html
Let me summarize it to you a bit.
"It says that most of the youth uses just 300-400 words daily although Turkish has 10000 words. (and attention, it talks about university youth, the others are even worse).It questions about the problem, and it claims that the youth has become like this because of the bad education system that just depends on memorizing. Their only aim is to be able to pass the university exam which is a multiple choice test. And apart from it a lot of foreign words have entered, and the result is a weird language.
The young that has been educated in this system doesn't feel the need to read. Most of them have just read just one book when they come to university. There're even people who proudly say that they have never read any book.According to the experts, young people find it very hard to express themselves because of their very poor vocabulary. The most important thing for them is to be able to tell what they want in the shortest and fastest possible way, they use short sentences and words by sms. It's like the fast culture of Mc.Donalds."
But I don't find your information very possible. Maybe, you remember it wrongly because 4000 even 1000 is very very much for today's youth. And does English have 25000?
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 11:19 pm |
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"evetler" means what? are they approves? by saying evet-ler and lar ?
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03 Jul 2006 Mon 11:21 pm |
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"Evetlemek" sounds too forced and too artificial to me. I wouldn't use it. Instead I would use "onaylamak". But it's a kind of modern and experimental word.
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