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dmb
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 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject: Translation help |
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How would you translate cicek(flower-I don't have Turkish characters on my keyboard) potato. flower potatoes?????
It's for a menu. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| What's a flower potato? Do they mean...potato blossoms? Do they exist? Like courgette blossoms maybe. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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That's my question.
Juleyen sebzeli izgara dana biftek sarma
soya filizi, mantar, peynir, cicek potates ve kirmizibeberli Sarap sosu ile |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Red pepper and wine sauce? What kind of poncy, experimentalist place is this? I bet them spuds are just elma dilimi spuds done to look like flowers and not apples. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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| it sounds like one of those Turkish food experiments where they play with French cuisine and get it horribly, horribly wrong. Why would you have beansprouts with steak in a red wine and pepper sauce? Julyen just means thinly sliced veggies. I suppose 'cicek patates' could just mean new potatoes. |
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Faustino
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| new potatoes |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: |
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I saw in my street market yesterday:
ekmek armut |
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dmb
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 7:59 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't new potatoes taze patates. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| I thought so too, but maybe they are oddly shaped new spuds? |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patates |
If you scroll down a bit, on the lower right side there is a photo of patates cicegi, which is syntactically not what you asked about but which may be related somehow. They look like...flowers. |
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: |
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From flowery spuds ... we get SMASH
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| Sheikh Inal Ovar wrote: |
From flowery spuds ... we get SMASH
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They were classic ads.... pity about the product.
Any other examples of brilliant ads but crap product? |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: |
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The:
Do you speak English ads on the side of vans. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
The:
Do you speak English ads on the side of vans. |
would that be your chip van? |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:52 am Post subject: |
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| I am not that cheap. |
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