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dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Did you manage to keep a straight face

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Just barely. Think I was beet red and I had to cover my mouth with my hand. Also I couldn't tell anyone, what with all the religious conservatives around here.

Is it just me or is everyone having a lazy finals week afternoon?

Ooops, guy's here to clean the windows. Gotta go.

Golightly · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

one that happened to me:
beginner's class.
simple questions.
me to 17-year-old female student: What do you like?
student: I lick c**k and walk streets.
me: You what??!
student: I lick c**k..you know....(makes vigorous twisting motions in the air)...drink it is good..
me: that's ermm, interesting..
student: you lick c**k?
me: me? oh no, no I don't..
student reaches into bag, and produces a beverage.
student: you don't lick?
Me: Oh, COKE! You LIKE COKE!
student: I say that.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

This is almost educational. Shocked

For the uninitiated, teachers hoping to come to Turkey could deduce that Turks have pronunciation problems with consonant clusters and some vewel phonemes.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

not 'vewel', vowel

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

Also Kenworthy's teaching pronunciation is a solid and quick introduction to problems for Turks.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

I had a students say that she'd had the postman many times, but this morning she really had him.

No Idea * what * she was talking about, probably something to do with post
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or seks

Golightly · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject:

of course, it isn't just the Turks who have a problem with pron. My favourite gaffe committed by a teacher was one time when a colleague came out of class with a puzzled look on her face. I asked her what was wrong.
'I'm not sure,' she said.'They're all giving me really peculiar looks. I think some of them are angry with me. I don't know why.'
'Did you say anything?'
'no, I just tried to say I was bored, that's all.'
'Ermm...how did you say it?'
'I said 'sikildim, cok sikildim'.'
'ah, that'll be it. You say 'I'm bored' using the undotted i? you know, not the 'i' sound?'
'So what did I say?'
I told her. Embarassed

She rapidly perfected her Turkish pron after that.
Twisted Evil

For those non-turkish speakers, 'sikildim' means something along the lines of 'I have recently been the passive object of an act of carnality.' except far ruder. Laughing

whynotme · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 728 Location: istanbul

we were talking about addictions and one of the girls said"i am addicted to c**k" and i guess how i laugh?

you know the food "i�li k�fte" i�limeans hisli or duyarlı which means sensitive.....and i told them that in one of the restaurants it was written "sensitive meat balls" and he told it to one of the foreign teachers like that "our twacher whynotme told us something funny...you know sensitive balls?" and guess what i did?