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Baba Alex
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| calsimsek wrote: |
You know Alex is right. After all the Turks call India Hindistan
(Turkey land) and the bird is called Hindi. So who is calling who a bird.   |
Anyway the bird is named after the country, not the other way round. |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| Entrailicus wrote: |
| It's not a rumour but I don't know if a law has been passed. Why not just change the name of the bird instead, maybe to 'the Christmas slaughter bird' or something. |
Call it Roger.
Roger the bird. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:22 am Post subject: |
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| i prefer 'microwave'. |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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| Entrailicus wrote: |
| Strange name for a country. |
It reflects the modern nature of the country, the differing climates, and the fact that you can't cook an egg in it.
I think that it's perfect |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| ...and also if you dont poke holes in the potato it will explode: Turkey in a nutshell! |
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Mark Loyd
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| whynotme wrote: |
| and Igiltere ,Fransa,Rusya are all Arabic arent they? |
No |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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| yaramaz wrote: |
| ...and also if you dont poke holes in the potato it will explode: Turkey in a nutshell! |
and you can boil water in seconds |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| and of course, someone's bound to try to cook an egg in it, saying 'bir sey olmaz abi, bir sey olmaz', and after the The Thing That Can't Happen has actually happened, they shrug their shoulders and say, 'n'aapim? burasi Microwave.' |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Golightly wrote: |
| and of course, someone's bound to try to cook an egg in it, saying 'bir sey olmaz abi, bir sey olmaz', and after the The Thing That Can't Happen has actually happened, they shrug their shoulders and say, 'n'aapim? burasi Microwave.' |
Most humerous cheif! I vote you founder of 'The People's Republic of Microwave' |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| right, first thing I'll do is sort out a language reform - right after I've downed this bottle of raki...... |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Golightly wrote: |
| right, first thing I'll do is sort out a language reform - right after I've downed this bottle of raki...... |
Just like the great Ataturk himself. |
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Golightly
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| Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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he's a role model for us all.
mainly the drinking bit.
I actually found a bust of him on sale in my local TK Maxx! |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:27 am Post subject: |
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This is an old rumour. about a decade ago I corrected a student who insisted on saying Turkiye. He told me the law had been changed and Turkiye was now an old English word. He then whipped out one of those old newspaper dictionaries(sabah I think) and sure enough the translation of Turkiye was .... Turkiye. Of course the dictionary knows better than the teacher and he refused to use turkey... He still got penalised for it in the final exam  |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
| This is an old rumour. about a decade ago I corrected a student who insisted on saying Turkiye. He told me the law had been changed and Turkiye was now an old English word. He then whipped out one of those old newspaper dictionaries(sabah I think) and sure enough the translation of Turkiye was .... Turkiye. Of course the dictionary knows better than the teacher and he refused to use turkey... He still got penalised for it in the final exam |
Good. I thought that it was a silly rumour.
I had one student who insisted that 'thankyou' was an appropriate answer to the question 'How are you?', she wouldn't budge on this untill she failed a basic speaking test. |
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dmb
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Did she say thank you after you had failed her? |
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