"Bed Amrican" eh? and Texan to boot?

Talk to me girl. I like many parts of Texas. Spent some time there.

"Bed" American? We´re ALL "bed" Americans!!!

But, I shouldn´t jest about spelling. My Turkish is so far gone after 40 years that it would take me a month of livng emersed in Iskenderun to get it back and disappear into the culture again.

Deniz - ocean

(I have a particular part of the sea in mind).

First one should be used as "Take it or leave it"

I learned it along ago as an addrress to one superior to yourself - be that age, position, prestige.

Could it mean

"Today your children´s pictures cand and muct be taken?"

(Thinking like a guy who learned the language 40 years ago)

istemiyorsun - you don´t want

 istemiyormusun? - don´t you want?

Nasil yaptim bu eski Iskenderunli Amerikali

We can title Elizabeth´s Dirty Turkish Class

"Senin annesi o bir aðýzile buse sen?"

(do you kiss your mother with that mouth?)

Hehehehe

Hello (or Greetings)

Happy New Year to celebrate wishing this year brings to you health, happiness,  peace, wealth I wish everyone a good year.

The message is improperly punctuated

That´s my poor effort - now for the natives....

Iskenderunli

Sonunda - I tried to say - with bad typing - I am washing.

kopekim yakanacagayam bu akþam

That´ll work!!!

Yeah - I am washing my dog tonight!

Nazaman araba inçinde ve arbaçi biz gunderecek yalniz "burasi abi" didikiz.

A-O-D

I might use bulmak or almak to replace the word for "arrange" or "obtain" regarding a hotel room.

Otherwise WOW on you!

I am an American who long ago lived in Turkey and love it very much.

But huge numbers of Americans cannot even identify the states around their own state on a map. In one study 38% of college graduating seniors identified the large country north of the United States as "Delaware".  Huge number of Americans - particularly in the largest cities where the very worst schools are - don´t even know the names of major political leaders of the country.

Americans live in a huge country such that they can travel thousands of miles and not approach a national border. That is not true in Europe and in the Middle East. America has many attributes and has been a world leader in many areas of accomplishment, but international curiosity is not one of them for the great masses of Americans.

That is unfortunate, but true. Americans, for the most part, do not have to have any knowledge of the rest of the world. Newspapers are dying in America. Television network news is being abandoned for cable stations. Even if every American read a newpaper everyday and watched television news, they wouldn´t learn anything about other countries unless there was some sort of sensational event to report - a plane crash or explosion, flood or earthquake. I recall watching for coverage of the last Turkish earthquake in the American press. It was reported in one or two sentences and if a map was used it was so small that detail was not defined.

News reporting in America is awful, but then, its done by news reporters. What do we expect. As one of my heroes once said, "Most people learn to read and wriote in 2nd grade and then they go on to better things."

In the replies to the you tube posting are objections from some possible Turks - some of it in Turkish some English - obbjecting that it is located in Turkiye but is not Turkçe but is rather Karadeniz music - that is Black Sea.

It seem to me from the tone, the objection is to the departure from traditional Turkish sounds and patterns in the music. It does have a western harmonic sound to it, but if I heard it without explanation I´d identify it as northern Turkiye but not Istanbul traditional. It certianly isn´t like music in Hatay and the southern reaches of Turkiye.

I´d make it

"I nibble you"

given the lack of context but the likley communication.

Little kiss/ nibble/touchwith the lips

Nice stuff that nibbling

Whiskey allowed? Available?

blended Whiskey?

Raki is ok, but only if you drive!!!

My old Hatay Turkish taught me that Hoþ Bulduk means in respons to Hoþ geldiniz - "Happy that we found you" or Happy to have found "

Bulduk - we found, eh?

Phonetically ashol ashak from Arabic - or used by a lot of Arabic speakers I knew - in a bit of jest but derrogatory too meaning - "son of a donkey"

Ah, but Lady was the rest of the sentence right?

I am trying to recover my Turkish.

Ayse (and whatever eeçik is) Did you give irfani´s number to me?

Trying for you

"Honestly, false interpretation (meaning) told (meant) but I relied on a friend of mine – very handsome so artificial"

Even though it is written in roman script, phonetically it sound not to be Arabic as I sound it out.

What or who and from where is the source of the words. Could it be Kurdish? Another Turkic language?

Evet Melek bende tanimiyordum hiç bir þey deðil. Tskrlr. Çok unutum þimdi. 40 sene eskiden Turkiyede oturdum ama kimse yok burasi var benim Turkçele konuþyor.

Ed

Iskenderunli 

boþver always meant  ´forget it´ where I lived.

It literally means "give it empty"

Forget it!

I know that song. I loved the whole (or serial) soundtrack. It was truely wonderful.

Now perhaps a native speaker will correct me. No doubt it isn´t perfect.

çalýþýyorum biliyorsun sen ne zaman msj ben o zaman yazýyorum sana.

Let me try one, please.

You know I am working. When you send me a message, then I will write to you.

I think the Turkish was not properly punctuated nore capitalized and should have been two sentences.

My Turkish is very dated. Let a native try it too.

Baþka means another or other - I recall using it to mean moreso.

Then, Henry, gidersem = passive voice while gitsem = active voice?

Passive verb gidersem, active verb gitsem. Deðilme?

If I "were to come´

If I ´come´

When I learned English grammar as a child - lo those mqany, many years ago, we learned a little sing song poem containing the ´verbs of being´ also known as passive verbs.

"Were" coupled with any other verb is passive. (Were coming)

Hasta oldum. Okulde gitmamiþtim.

(40 years ago I´d have said it like thqat in Hatay.)

They´d have understood me there, too.

Benile oynayormusun?

Simple straight up. If the addressee is a Turkish male native speaker, he´ll get the message without long phrases.

As others said, he won´t answer that straight - unless the truth is that he is not playing with your affections.

Or he might be the first guy in the world to say "Evet, canim, senile oynayorudum ama simdi bitmis, haydi gidiyorum."

So it means - "Believe me, I love you very much. You are my first love."

Native speakers???

Inan bende - believe me (is there an unstated ´when I say´?)

Why on earth would any person, Turk or non-Turk, ever insult Ataturk or the Turkish flag?

Do what you want to them.

´WC nerede, lutfen´ - and wait for them to point the way!

Pronounce WC - Ve Çe (Je) - in voice Ve Çe (Je) - yokmu, Turkler?

I think he means he´ll return to didim "before" (onçe) the holiday (bayram).

´Onçe´ handsom arkadaþim  - yokmu?

Pardon - yalniz bir eski American çalisyorumki biraz.

Sifrelmek is to encode.

Sifrelerini I don´t know.

I think it means - It is easy to find your secrets (or perhaps to encode your secrets). Know how?

But I also presume its is spam.

I´m not Turkish and even I caught the need to change the translated menaing of "can´t´ to "don´t".

It means "I do not understand you".