I want to share an interesting article I came across with.

http://bigthink.com/Mind-Matters/obese-smoker-no-retirement-savings-perhaps-its-because-of-the-language-you-speak?page=all

It is about how grammatical structure of our native language may effect our behavior, course of life, even health. Professor Keith Chen of Yale University suggests that speakers of weak grammatical future reference (such as German or Mandarin) are more likely to gather savings and to take care of their health than speakers of languages with strong grammatical future marking (like Greek or English). The professor claims seeing present and future as one unity in the language also encourages people to more responsible behavior. His remarks are based on statistics.

Turkish distinguishes present and future times quite clearly. It is one of the strong future-time-reference (FTR) languages. What do you people think, does it show in the lifestyle also?

Şahın Irmak who is playing the role of Şeyhmuş in the ´Sultan´ series makes a remarkable assertion about women. Şeyhmuş is not able to arrange his relationship with the Queen one way or another. Irmak explains the Queen is expecting Şeyhmuş to lie: "Women sometimes expect lies."

My Try:

No matter which town you come from, you always go to the same village  -  the boneyard.

My Try:

Religious worship cannot purify (from sins) those who have offended people with their tongue.

You don´t have to be a saint to have a cultivated heart.

A professor of mine was a very shabby looking tall woman. As a friendly person she didn´t choose her friends according to social status. She had a neighbor woman who she used to chat with every day. Once this woman asked her where she worked. "In the university" she answered, unwilling to make a number about being a professor. From her looks her interlocutor drew the conclusion she was cleaning the university corridors. Noticing this our professor did not want to embarrass her by correcting her mistake.

After many years the professor got 60 years old. Her main concern was her photo and birthday interview which was published in the local newspaper. She couldn´t imagine how the neighbor woman would feel once noticing her own mistake.

I do not own the thread and I very much liked what you added.

Look how important people translators have always been.

New Blood, Three New Actors Came Suddenly to ‘Sultan’

The setting of Kanal D’s series called ‘Sultan’ which is starred by Nurgül Yeşilçay was moved to Istanbul after a long Diyarbakır adventure. All of a sudden three new actors joined the series which has brought to the screen the Queen’s survival fight in Istanbul.  -  The Queen has been given a new life by Yeşilçay.   -  The virtuoso actor Zafer Algöz, Emel Çölgeçen and Ushan Çakır who came up to the fore because of his eventful separation from the last season of the series ‘Leyla ile Mecnun’ became the new actors. Çakır who was taken to court because of battering his fellow actor Ezgi Asaroğlu joined the team of ‘Sultan’ as the ex lover of Pınar. Çakır has also played the role of Kenan İmirzalıoğlu’s son in Osman Sınav’s film named ‘Uzun Hikaye’ during the last few months.

http://artebru.blogcu.com/osmanli-resim-sanati-minyatur/5909277

http://www.felsefeekibi.com/sanat/sanatalanlari/sanat_alanlari_osmanli_minyaturu_klasik_sonrasi.html

http://yalpturk.blogcu.com/levni-abdulcelil-celebi/1150416

Nakkaş Levni 

Ottoman miniature art had its roots in the nomadic times. It was influenced by Persian and Chinese traditions. Artists didn’t always enjoy freedom of expression in the Empire:

İslam akidesinde insan sureti çizilmesi ve heykel yapmak Allah ile boy ölçüşmek gibi algılanmış ve ressamın kimliği çoğu zaman gizli kalmıştır. In the Islamic faith drawing a picture of a human being and making a statue is perceived as competing with Allah, and often the artist’s name was kept a secret.

Miniature painting took a step forward in Fatih Sultan Mehmet’s era. Its classical period can be dated to the reign of Suleiman the Magnificient. The most mature miniatures come from the period of Murad III and young Osman II. The last great miniatyrist, Levni alias Abdülcelil Çelebi, created his masterpieces during the Tulip era.

Çelebi was born in Edirne where he began his career. He was given the nickname Levni ‘colorful’. Levni was also known as a poet and a musician. He painted the portraits of 22 Sultans. Unfortunately the original works have not remained until today. Levni’s most important work, the series Surname-i Vehbi which tells the story of Palace circumcision festivals, is still kept in the library of Topkapi Palace. Levni is praised for his natural compositions, sensitive use of colors and special talent in describing joy of life.

Padişahın badem gözleri, kemerli burnu, koyu sakalı, uzun yüzü, zarif duruşu ve bakışı gerçekçi bir portre olduğunu gösterir. The Sultan’s (Ahmed III) almond eyes, Roman nose, his thick beards, long face, elegant pose and glance show that it is a realistic portrait.

Şehzade düğünlerine oyuncular, hünerli kişiler, fişek ustaları, yazarlar, ressamlar, alim ve şairler katılırdı. Actors, jugglers, firework masters, writers, painters, scholars and poets attended the circumcision festivals of the princes.

Levni´s woman figures broke the earlier tradition:

Levni’nin minyatüre getirdiği en önemli değişiklik kadını erkekler arasındaki silik yaşamın dışına taşıyarak kadını tek başına elinde çiçekle, otururken, uyurken, yatarken ve enstrüman çalarken minyatürleri ile eserlerinde işlemiştir. The biggest difference Levni brought to the miniatyr was taking the woman out of the faceless life among men and presenting her alone: a flower in her hand, sitting, sleeping, lying, playing musical instruments.

Jokes like this tell something about the time we are living. We were always taught if a person has any chastity or manners or whatsoever he should pretend not noticing if someone mistakenly breaks the etiquette with an unsuitable gesture. And look what these people are doing just in order to make us laugh.

It is a cheap fashion among untalented humorists. President Mursi is not the only victim.

The Egyptian President would be worth a proper discussion. I think he is one of the leaders of a new era, a politician who brings hope to the whole region. Humble, decent, tolerant like the nation he represents.

Good girl.