I thought in neither of us the choice is from two, none of us is from a larger group. But I don´t know any better than you, tunci.

deli?

I´m sorry, I should have added the translations when I wrote it but I didn´t notice:

Kırmızıdan sonra dirençleri arttı. ´After the red their resistance got stronger.´ (It´s about football and the red thing is the card.)

Uzunla kısanın, şişmanla zayıfın arkadaşlığından korkacaksın. ´There is reason to be afraid of (lit. you will be afraid of) the friendship between the tall and the short (person), the fat and the skinny (person).´

Nice post, tunci. But it is irresponsible to advertise food trips to someone like me who has been hungry for four months. There is nothing to eat in Egypt.

My Try:

When I get unemployed/free from work the first thing I am going to do is to take a course to learn English. I couldn´t answer because there was a problem in my Internet connection. Your being angry with me really made me sad.

Oh, thanks for the addition, Kultigin. That´s a handy expression, too.

Ok, it is a very artificial concept anyway, invented by those who want to market certain products and lifestyle for young people. Thank you, Faruk.

No wonder you didn´t hear it. I invented it using analogy. Yani, there is no such word which you could use for every one from 11 to 19?

yirmilerinde ´in his twenties´

otuzlarında ´in his thirties´

kırklarında ´in his forties´

...

onlarında ´in his teens´ ?

The cross-section of the negation marker –me- is morphologically the element that precedes it. In the simple case it is the verb stem. What is denied in the next example is ‘knowing’:

Türkçe bil|mi|yorum.

The rule becomes useful in modally modified verbs where it sometimes makes a difference if –me- comes after the verb root or the potential suffix:

Yağmur yağ|ma|yabilir ROOT + NEG + POT  ‘it [may be] that it will [not rain]’

Burada otur|amaz|sınız ROOT + POT + NEG  ‘you [are not allowed] [to sit] here’

Çoşkun’u ikna ed|eme|yebilirim. ROOT + POT + NEG + POT ‘it [may be] that we [will not be able] [to convince] him’

If there is a negation marker –me- in a necessitative verb it is before –meli-. That’s why it always denies the action, not the necessity. For denying the necessity, other means must be used.

Beni gördüğünu hiç kimseye söyle|me|melisin. ROOT + NEG + NEC ‘you must [not say]’

Syntactically –me- negates the whole sentence. But not always. In sentences where an unusual constituent has been transferred from its predictable position to the ear-marked place of emphasis right before the verb the negated predicate only denies this constituent, not the whole action:

Bu rengi ben seç|me|dim. ‘It was [not me] who chose this colour (someone still did).

(I used Göksel – Kerslake + old threads “On Modality” and “Negating a Constituent”.)