I have never seen anyone's PM all my life. I have never had any interest in reading them either. I think it would be very unethical and probably somewhat illegal.

Moderators are not authorized to read PM's. They can just delete and undelete messages. How did you get the impression?


P.S. Don't you think they exaggerate Angelina Jolie a little?

I value all opinions, yours too. We should all do that.

I found that I was drinking one bottle of wine a day and decided to reduce it to one bottle every three days. I don't like raki or any other drink at all, just wine.

And your part of the question is in the subject line.

What about string bags?

In English our country is called Turkey. It is written with a capital "T" and is a homonym of turkey the Guinea fowl. In a language, a word may have more than one meaning and this is exactly the case for the word referring to Turkey.

There are certain processes that are instrumental in the formation of new vocabulary and in their gaining different meanings. None of them involves foreign intervention. Prescriptive approaches were tried in the past and they all failed because they were working against those natural processes.

I can not find a word to describe how improper the so called word Turkia is. It defies scientific facts and natural linguistic processes.

We Turks call Egypt as Misir which also means corn; the Turkish word for India is Hindistan which literally translates into English as "The land of Turkeys"; Abaza is both an adjective referring to a man who craves for a woman and at the same time to a subject of Abhasia. We used to call Iranians as Acemi which means inexperienced. Because our people do not have a habit of reading, they sometimes come up with these ridiculous inventions.

If we expect that the USA, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and all the other English speaking people will change the name of our country to some other word just because we want to them to do so then we must accept foreign intervention in our own mother tongue.

The emphasis there is not on the reaction of a mother.