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Thread: Getting off a Bus

11.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 29 Dec 2008 Mon 09:19 pm

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

 



Thread: Eng- turk please

12.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 29 Dec 2008 Mon 08:55 pm

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!



Thread: AMERICANSSS!!! LOOK HERE!

13.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 23 Dec 2008 Tue 04:29 pm

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."



Thread: Kazým Koyuncu

14.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 22 Dec 2008 Mon 07:36 pm

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.



Thread: t to e

15.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 22 Dec 2008 Mon 03:47 pm

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



Thread: The Translation Lounge

16.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 18 Dec 2008 Thu 11:08 pm

Whiskey allowed? Available?

 

blended Whiskey?

 

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



Thread: t to e

17.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 18 Dec 2008 Thu 10:29 pm

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?



Thread: Sorry if this offends

18.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 18 Dec 2008 Thu 08:24 pm

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"



Thread: Help with small translation please

19.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 18 Dec 2008 Thu 08:07 pm

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

 

I am trying to recover my Turkish.



Thread: Help with small translation please

20.       Iskenderunli
36 posts
 18 Dec 2008 Thu 08:00 pm

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



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