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thrifty
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 Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:21 am Post subject: Things Turks say in Turkish or English that annoy you |
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Will you say something?
I will say something. |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:28 am Post subject: |
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| Afiyet olsun. Okay, I'm being churlish, but I don't like it when a semi-stranger says it, mid-mouthful and you have to have to acknowledge it with a fake smile while trying not to let food fall out of your mouth. I'm eating a Metro bar dammit! Is it really worth acknowledging? |
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Baba Alex
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I love Turks, great people, seriously. Great sense of humour. I'm not arsed about those little things that creep through in thier language, however, when native speakers and teachers pick them up and start using them.................
"You must make sure you study your lessons"
"Study your lesson"? It called REVISING you thick c.unt!
Kontors? CREDITS!!!!
The next person to say "my phone wasn't open" is getting it shoved up their arse. |
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thrifty
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I picked up a pair of boots from the "lostra salonu" yesterday-it cost me 5YTL to get a pair of boots repainted or whatever you call it and a new pair of laces. After I paid him we went through this ridiculous routine of:
beraket versin, gule gule kulanun etc. As you say, is it worth acknowledging? |
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lovelace
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| "English people don't like Turkish people, do they?" |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| Why do lostra salonu always have outrageously nationalist things on the wall. There used to be one in Beşiktaş that claimed that Turks had founded more than 100 countries. The one I went to yesterday has all these ludicrous Vatan..... stuff on the walls. |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| thrifty wrote: |
I picked up a pair of boots from the "lostra salonu" yesterday-it cost me 5YTL to get a pair of boots repainted or whatever you call it and a new pair of laces. After I paid him we went through this ridiculous routine of:
beraket versin, gule gule kulanun etc. As you say, is it worth acknowledging? |
Polished?
Does anyone say Ge�miş Olsun even to friends who aren't in Turkey, don't speak Turkish and have never visited? I can't help myself these days. |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:40 am Post subject: |
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| I have accidentally gecmis olsun'd friends and family in other countries, probably out of habit and possibly because it covers a wider range of issues than our meagre get Well Soon. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| Baba Alex wrote: |
| thrifty wrote: |
I picked up a pair of boots from the "lostra salonu" yesterday-it cost me 5YTL to get a pair of boots repainted or whatever you call it and a new pair of laces. After I paid him we went through this ridiculous routine of:
beraket versin, gule gule kulanun etc. As you say, is it worth acknowledging? |
Polished?
No these old pair of boots had lost most of their colour so I had them re-dyed-in Turkish-boyamk.
Does anyone say Ge�miş Olsun even to friends who aren't in Turkey, don't speak Turkish and have never visited? I can't help myself these days. |
No
I also hate:
�ok kilosun abi |
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lovelace
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Yeh, that's a good one. I'm not sure why, but it irritates me when someone at work says 'Hoş geldin' when I come in. I work there, they work there, it's not their home. (Or maybe the number of hours they do, they feel it is).  |
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thrifty
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| yaramaz wrote: |
| I have accidentally gecmis olsun'd friends and family in other countries, probably out of habit and possibly because it covers a wider range of issues than our meagre get Well Soon. |
I have gotten into the bad habit of speaking Turkish with my son because he knows way more Turkish than English. He also knows many words in both languages-he often says Mummy, Anne and uses her name. |
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dmb
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| The next person to say "my phone wasn't open" is getting it shoved up their arse. |
Baba, I'll see you 5 minutes later |
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lovelace
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| "Are you married? Why not?" (Sad face for the lonely foreigner). |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| "English people don't like Turkish people, do they?" |
Starngers coming up to you in bars and cafes, talking to you for 15 mins and then saying "English people are cold, aren't they?"
I'M F***ING TALKING TO YOU AREN'T I?????!!!???!?? 
True story, my flat mate brought two girls round to the flat one evening. I was doing some work, but I said hello. One asked for a cigarette, I said "Here have 3". Then I felt a bit hungry, so I made soem pasta for myself, and them. I helped one with some maths homework, then we all sat down and drank two bottles of my wine that I'd bought back from Bulgaria. Chatting away one says.
"I will as you something"
"Yes"
"Why are foreign people so cold and unhelpful?"
I nearly threw them out. |
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thrifty
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| Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Did you get off with either of them?
How old were they-seeing as they had maths homework? |
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