Quoting Lyndie:

In the interests of the practice of GOOD english, I think the use of the words 'dis, dat, der' etc for this, that and the etc - is deplorable and confusing for those wonderful people who are learning Turkish and having to speak English as a second language to do it! and the same with Turkish text abbreviations 'jnm' for canim. Its ok in text messaging when you are trying to save characters, but really! Come on guys sharpen up...Yours sincerely, Lyndie Ruthless Moderator! (and grumpy school mistress kind of person!)

Quoting sophie:

çevren - horizon

Quoting miss_ceyda:

oh no! we are gonna have about 3000 members now write in their reason for using TC arent we..? :S

Quoting miss_ceyda:

im not sure whereabouts u are although i know that in places like london, there are lots of Turkish people.. are u not near there? cant u get TR tv? that would also be greatly beneficial

Quoting miss_ceyda:

also, i think that u would benefit from being in a turkish environment with all TR speakers so u would also pick up thngs natrually as well as having to "study study study" ha?

Quoting sophie:

yelken - sail

Quoting miss_ceyda:

if i give u some more examples rather than explaining it maybe u will understand

gelirim
giderim
beklerim
özlerim
isterim
bakarım
atarım
koşurum
üşÃ¼rüm


u can see that most of them follow the vowel type harmony although there are about 12-13 exceptions..
these are all listed in another thread which was started by myself a while ago.. maybe u can find it? that would help u also as it explains things in more depth