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dmb
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 Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: uncountable currency |
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| 5 poundS, 5 dollarS 5 euroS and 5 liraS. Nope I don't think so. Why is lira uncountable? |
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calsimsek
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Perhapes we'er use to saying 5 millon liars  |
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googlebrains
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:32 pm Post subject: Re: uncountable currency |
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| dmb wrote: |
| 5 poundS, 5 dollarS 5 euroS and 5 liraS. Nope I don't think so. Why is lira uncountable? |
And you're an English teacher? 
A strict grammarian would say 5 lire
A lesser grammarian might say liras
But we, as members of a culture that butchers grammar, say 5 lira. |
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Faustino
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| An Eastender would of course say 5 paaaaaaaiinnndd. |
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whynotme
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| and a turkish Cypriot would say 5 liracık |
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googlebrains
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31
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| googlebrains wrote: |
| whynotme wrote: |
| and a turkish Cypriot would say 5 lirac?k |
Now that's funny.
What's the general attitude towards turkish cypriots in Turkey? Are they well-liked? Would I be respected or hated as a turkish-cypriot teacher? |
Turkish Cypriot teachers are treated as 100% the equal of a Turkish teacher because they are Turk after all. After that on a descending scale would be Azeris, Bulgarian Turks, Romanian Turks, and hypothetically Uighurs. After that would be all other foreign teachers.
Funny thing is that you will hear Turkish Cypriots slagging off Turks. They say things like:
''Before they came there was no crime there.''[N Cyprus]
They all know each other so the same family names crop us all the time. Watch out for the Volkans and the Mesutoglus. |
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googlebrains
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| 31 wrote: |
| googlebrains wrote: |
| whynotme wrote: |
| and a turkish Cypriot would say 5 lirac?k |
Now that's funny.
What's the general attitude towards turkish cypriots in Turkey? Are they well-liked? Would I be respected or hated as a turkish-cypriot teacher? |
Turkish Cypriot teachers are treated as 100% the equal of a Turkish teacher because they are Turk after all. After that on a descending scale would be Azeris, Bulgarian Turks, Romanian Turks, and hypothetically Uighurs. After that would be all other foreign teachers.
Funny thing is that you will hear Turkish Cypriots slagging off Turks. They say things like:
''Before they came there was no crime there.''[N Cyprus]
They all know each other so the same family names crop us all the time. Watch out for the Volkans and the Mesutoglus. |
So TUrkish teachers get more respect than, say, an American teacher? |
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googlebrains
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31
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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So TUrkish teachers get more respect than, say, an American teacher?[/quote]
Of course they do, they are Turks. |
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31
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| whynotme wrote: |
| and a turkish Cypriot would say 5 liracık |
And an Azeri would say mesh lira. |
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molly farquharson
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I think we don't add S because lira is a foreign word. We don't say "yens" in Japan, for example. Any other money we DO add S to other than dollars, cents, pounds, and euros? |
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googlebrains
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| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| molly farquharson wrote: |
| I think we don't add S because lira is a foreign word. We don't say "yens" in Japan, for example. Any other money we DO add S to other than dollars, cents, pounds, and euros? |
Drachmas?
Pesos?
Dinars?
Rupees?
etc... |
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Faustino
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| Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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This is the English language, I can't believe any of you are asking for a reason why! Why are there perfect aspects in English?
OK, go on then, why 'pounds' put not 'pences'? |
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