Her songs will always remind me of my grandmother..

This fragment from Geoffrey Lewis' 'The Turkish language reform, a catastrophic succes' didnt just make me smile, it made me laugh in the train (The 'he' in the fragment refers to Atatürk)

"He equated the first two syllables of merinos 'merino' with the Yakut ibri 'fine', and merino wool is indeed fine. He wondered whether the word might have travelled to Spain with the İber Turks, in which case the names not only of the merino sheep and its wool but of the İberian peninsula too would be of Turkish origin. He is reputed also to have proposed Turkish etymologies for Niagara and Amazon: Ne yaygara 'What tumult!' and Ama uzun 'But it's long'!"

Geoffrey Lewis, p 43.

So actually they gave two differnt words one meaning, devrim?

I came acrros the word inkilap many times, so it is safe to assume that devrim and inkilap mean the same?

Also, Prof. Zeynep Korkmaz uses Dil davası in many of her articles. Does that mean the same or is she merely just referring to the same period of the time.

How would you translate the Turkish word Devrim, when it comes to the Dil devrimi, started by Atatürk?

I am writing an essay on it for university, and thinking of leaving the word Devrim as it is, in Turkish, because I dont know which tanslation to pick.

In English it is often referred to as reform, but that would imply a perfection or improvement of the language in its actual form, whereas in Turkish not only the alphabet changed, but it also raised some grammatical issues etc. In that case revolution might be the answer, but isnt a revolution supposed to be swift? The dil devrimi is still quietly going on in nowadays turkish..

Devrim can be translated as period too, but I dont think that gives enough credit to its actual meaning..

Please enlighten me what your ideas are abotu this topic. Was it a reform or a revolution and why do you think so?

Can someone also tell me what Tanzimat means?

I'll definitely watch that vid when I have some more time. I really wonder what motivates a non-muslim to cover up!

You are learning so fast Dilara! Aferin sana