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to have,to be,to do
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 10:20 pm |
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Quoting CANLI: even on the coca cola's bottles, it is not written Coca Cola?
İt writes Kola ? |
lol
No, it's a brand and you cannot change a brand name. We just call coke of all brands as "kola".
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 10:22 pm |
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No, brands don't change. It writes coca cola on them. Exactly for this reason people started calling this drink "kola". Actually at first they called it "koka kola" and then it become shorter as the long version was silly.
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 10:25 pm |
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Quoting erdinc: Actually at first they called it "koka kola" and then it become shorter as the long version was silly. |
It doesn't sound any more silly in Turkish than it does in English 
Incidentally, I can walk into any English supermarket and find "Coka Cola" plus several brands of generic "Cola" (pronouced like 'kola' in Turkish)
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 10:55 pm |
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well,it is same here too,enough to say Cola to mean both Coca Cola or Pepsi, even starting to get absurd ,and people ask out of fun,you want it black or white,then if black they start to ask which Coca Cola or Pepsi,,lol
So i guess it is silly by all languages 
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 11:00 pm |
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It is not only kola that we were inspired by a brand's name. We also say jilet. Can you recognize the brand without checking the dictionary?
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 11:01 pm |
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aha,i guess so,cause we say same here,
İt is the shaving tools ?
or am i wrong :-S ???
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 11:03 pm |
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Yes it is and "jilet" was inspired by a brand name.
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31 Jul 2006 Mon 11:05 pm |
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if it is coming to that,then i guess studing Türkçe is very easy ,,lol
Wish all the words were brand names,,lol
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01 Aug 2006 Tue 11:28 am |
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Some words are easy to remember because of their coincidental connection with English words......my favourite is:
beter = worse 
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01 Aug 2006 Tue 12:34 pm |
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I had a neighbour from Bulgaria and she was telling all the time " Let me hoover my floors". She meant the vacuum cleaning because the brand of her vacuum cleaner was "Hoover"
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01 Aug 2006 Tue 03:31 pm |
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Quoting bliss: I had a neighbour from Bulgaria and she was telling all the time " Let me hoover my floors". She meant the vacuum cleaning because the brand of her vacuum cleaner was "Hoover" |
To hoover is actually an existing English verb  .
Hoover (v) BrE to clean a floor, carpet etc using a vacuum cleaner (= a machine that sucksup dirt)
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