Is it in Turkish also that new loanwords have their special use in professional language? For instance, takıntı could be used in everyday speech but obsesyon by psychiatrists.

In other words, both -mAk and -mA are nouns. They just have different uses.

Loanwords are a natural part of vocabulary, not bad or good as such. It seems to me that due to rich cultural contacts in the past the amount of synonymes is remarkably high in Turkish.

But still I think the language reform of the 20th century was for the good. You see, foreign words are not just words, in great numbers they also weaken the structure of the language. Turkish has a developed system of word formation. Derivation and compounding are the original means of increasing vocabulary. Your evaluator suggested for you to use a derived word instead of a loanword.

Take a look at Turkish computer terms. Language planners have made such a beautiful work with them. Instead of opening the doors for English terms Turkish resources have been utilized to their fullest.

It is not enough to reflect when you have a light of your own also.

An honorable defense, AlphaF.

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denli doesn´t work in time expressions obviously. Thanks for help, harp00n.

Good I asked, I would have chosen something else. 

But kadar would work for all of them, wouldn´t it?

May I have some help with this please?

Orhan Gencebay// Eyvah

Too Bad

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Bu dünyada bir kötüye
Kul olmuşsan canım diye eyvah
Akan yaşı kaderinden
Bekliyorsan siler diye eyvah

If you used to be slave to an evil in this world

thinking that you were her love, that’s too bad.

If you are waiting for her

to wipe the flowing tears from your destiny, that´s too bad.

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Gerçekleri yalanlardan
Ayırıp da görmediysen eyvah
Dünyanın her nimetinden
Bir payın var almadıysan eyvah

If you couldn’t see and tell apart

the truth from lies, that’s too bad.

There is a share of yours in every blessing of the world

-  if you didn’t take it, that´s too bad.

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Sevgi nedir tatmadıysan
Bir ot gibi yaşadıysan
Bir güzele mecnun olup
Aşk derdini sarmadıysan
Bilmediysen tatmadıysan
Sevmediysen eyvah

If you didn’t taste what love is.

If you lived like a pasture

crazed by beauty

leaving your pain of love untreated,

if you didn’t know, if you didn’t taste,

if you didn’t love, oh that’s too bad.

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Kim diyorsa bahtım kara
Hiç kapanmaz böyle yara yalan
Her derdin bir dermanı var
Her tövbede umut başlar inan

Şu gök kubbe bizi sarar
Yok alemde baki kalan kalan

Who ever says “I have a bad luck

and this wound is not going to be healed”  -   it’s wrong.

There is a cure for every pain,

there is a seed of hope in every repentance, just believe it.

The canopy of sky covers us,

there is nothing in this world that remains unchanged.

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(Please have it checked. I am not a native-this or a native-that.)

If there was a thing that I learned while watching the world

it is that people are not as they look like.