Aynı şeyi söylüyoruz, Miles. 

Yes, tecnically you dont have letter "v" but you have -->"و" [waaw]

and we read it as ´vav" ,since we don´t have "w" , however, when we read it, it sounds like "waw"  "و"  

 zâviye  --->  زاوية  = açı --> angle

Acele etme. Yavaaaşşş  yaavaaşşşş.....

Ama çok yavaş da değil tabi.

it looks ok to me. 

just " okul tatil olunca" , "tatil" is good without "i".

In the Geometry book that was written by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, he suggested some geometry terms and explained the basic geometry issues in his book. Some of terms in  his book are ;

 Osmanlıcası                     Atatürk’ün önerdiği

In old Language         The Geometry Terms named by Atatürk

Bu’ud - -->                      boyut

mekan - ->                    uzay

satıh - --->                     yüzey

kutur ---->                     çap

nısf-ı kutur ---->             yarıçap

kavis   --->                    yay

muhit-i daire --->          çember

mümâs  -------->            teğet

zâviye ------>                     açı

re’sen mütekabil zâviyeler - --->    ters açılar

zâviyetan’ı mütabâdiletân-ı dâhiletan - ---> iç ters açılar

kaaide ---->                  taban

ufkî ------->                   yatay

şâkulî ----->                  düşey

amûd ---->                    dikey

zâviyetân-ı mütevâfıkatân ----> yöndeş açılar

va’zîyet - --->              konum

mustatîl ----->              dikdörtgen

muhammes ----->        beşgen

müselles-i mütesâviyü’l-adlâ’ - ----> eşkenar üçgen

müselles-i mütesâviyü’ssâkeyn -----> ikizkenar üçgen

şibh-i münharif ------>   yamuk

mecmû - ------ >           toplam

nisbet -------- >               oran

tenasüb ----------->            orantı

mesâha-i sathiyye ----------> alan

müştak ------------->           türev

müsavi ------------->            eşit

mahrut - ---------->             koni

faraziye ----------->             varsayı

hat ---------------->             çizgi

mukavves --------->             eğri

seviye ------------->            düzey

muvazi ------------>            paralel-koşut

menşur ----------->             pürüzma

hattı mail --------->             eğik

veter -------------->             kiriş

re’s - köşe

zaviyei hadde ------>           dar açı

hattı munassıf ------>          açıortay

muhit ---------------->         çevre  

kaim zaviyeli müselles ---->  dikey üçgen

tamamlıyan zaviye -------->  tümey açı

murabba ------------->          kare

umumi totale --------->         ökül küre - yüre

===================================

Trip, you have humanistic way of thinking which is cool.  Therefore you are drawing an ideal  world which we all yearning for. 

Yes, People should learn foreign languages. And cultures, languages influence each other.  But when this too much influence starts  to change your culture, language, your identity  then it  becomes the negative influence.

Each culture and language is precious for their people. 

Trip, I´ve never read "Kara Kitap" but Orhan Pamuk is not the only Turk in the world that everything he says or analyses has to be right. And Turkiye is not only Istanbul.  He can be a good writer but I don´t know about his views much. 

In the United States, we are so used to taking in others´ influences that it would never occur to us to talk about this.  You know why ? 

because in your country ;

in your major universities  the education language is English , right ? [Harvard, Yale…etc] not in Spanish or in other language. People learn History, Maths, Physics in English  not  in Spanish. 

ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ
ÖĞRENCİ KABUL ve KAYIT İŞLERİ YÖNETMELİĞİ

 I. GENEL

Eğitim-Öğretim Düzeyleri:

Öğretim Dili: 
Madde 2. 

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesinin lisans ve lisansüstü programlarında eğitim-öğretim dili İngilizce’dir. Ancak, Türkçe veya başka bir dilde yapılması zorunlu olan dersler Üniversite Senatosu tarafından belirlenir. 

   secondly, you don´t have much worry about English [or should I say American English ?] being influenced by other languages as you know well that English is  already most common language in international arena. Look , even in this website is teaching Turkish in English. [There had to be a common language to teach foreigners anyway] Therefore Americans don´t feel their language threatened.

thirdly, this might sound bit harsh sorry but you [American state] had always influencing policy [culturally] by using Hollywood movies over the rest of the world.

And finally,  " Turks need to be part of the world ´ , should  NOT necessarily  mean "Turks need to be Americanized" by copying their life-style,their phrases, words....etc.

The negative influence of foreign language formations  is upsetting the syntax and vocabulary of Turkish Language especially in the recent years.  For instance ,

Calling  " Otel  Akasya " instead of  "Akasya  Oteli "  or  " The Marmara "  instead of " Marmara Oteli " becoming common nowadays. 

Foreing usages are spreading in daily language as well,  Such as ; " Kendine iyi bak " , we got this pattern from English. To be honest, I never heard my grandparents or my parents used that phrase.[Instead I heard them saying " Selametle" , ´Hoşçakalİ, " Allaha Emanet ol…etc..] 

 Since it is a borrowed-phrase [probably from Hollywood movies]. But , it is now became a common phrase. I also use this phrase all the time. I am not against it as it is already welcomed. However, I am against people who are unceasingly trying to adapt especially English words,patterns,phrases into Turkish Language.Those people should stop adoring English Language and get rid of their "inferiority complex".  

Batının diline değil ilimine özenmeliyiz.

Check this video for “ə” pronouncation,  at 3:18. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqhAfUOqqMI

The difference is ;

 ə  is read  deeper, thicker and from the throat. In other words, it sounds like thicker e.