lana- can ask about a very important issue in just five words. I am jealous.

What is the motivation of using IŞ infinitive instead of one of the others? In one of tunci´s sentences selam verişi has been translated "the way she greets me". Could we generalize that meaning? Would selam vermesi do the same job here or would the meaning change into something like ´the fact that she greets me´?

1. The apostrophe is used only with proper names.

2. I am not sure if genitivive should be used in all these compounds (like araba lastiği, İstanbul köprüsü) but that is for the Turks to judge.

Let´s go from right to left olur mu?

The last i/ı is accusative ending. It means these words are straight objects in a sentence.

The n is a buffer letter called the pronominal n. The rule is simple: always add n between the 3rd person possessive suffix and the case ending.

sı that precedes the pronominal n is a third person possessive suffix.

The plural examples are ambiguous because the LAR part can either denote that the objects are many or the owners are many or both are many:

And lastly, it is also possible to see the borders between the elements in another way which changes the person:

My professor at the uni was a short man but his thinking was very sharp. He held a lecture about linguistic oppositions and explained us how oppositions are always based on the context where they appear. What was especially interesting was his view about continua between strong plus and strong minus words.

Some words like democracy, equality (or kemalism in the Turkish society) are always used in positive contexts and it would be very stupid for a politician to challenge the positive load of these words. Instead, these words are given new meanings. Thus, serious effort is put in explaining Islamic concept of democracy or equality or the religious devotion of Atatürk so that people with different ideas do not have to question the positive color of the word itself.

Racism has been a strong minus word. No politician admits to be a racist, and the word has been replaced with neologisms such nationalist or immigration critic which are then filled with a load of carbage. European populists try to clean the word racism from its historical burden, though, and make it more acceptable. They have succeeded to some degree and this is a worrying tendency because if you change the position of a word in the continuum between minus and plus you have really affected the thinking of masses.

Let´s try these:

                         benimle konuşuyor gibiydin

                         sanki benimle konuşuyordun

                         benimle konuşuyormuşçasına

Wait for corrections.

^^ Up. ^^

These are quite interesting. Where are all the experts?

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Kubat, Gönül

Hep orda burda sağda solda

dolanır avare gönül.

"Sevme" dedim, dinlemedin

- gam yüküyle geçti ömür.

Here and there, on the right, on the left

the vagabond heart keeps wandering around.

"Do not love" I said, you never listened

-  life passed with the burden of grief.

Moustache tourism is increasing in Turkey even though Turkish men themselves do not carry a paintbrush under their nose as often as before.

They say 77 out of 100 Turkish men had a moustache in 1993 but in 2011 the number was only 33.

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