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Category: turkisms

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most quoted re "turkisms": Jonathan North Washington (7), CS (6), other (4), zfe (2), Niko (2)

other categories found with "turkisms": patriotism (5), language (5), turkic (4), weirdness (4), technology (3)


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[link] heard: 16 May 2017
[edit] added: 16 May 2017

[22:37:24] <selimcan> <firespeaker> need to upgrade my firmware. bbiam

[22:37:34] <selimcan> didn't know firespeaker was a bionic

[22:39:48] <fotonzade> selimcan, they're slowly replacing all americans actually

[22:41:23] <selimcan> ola bilir

computers, turkisms, people, technology, insults
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[link] heard: 24 March 2013
[edit] added: 24 March 2013

(23:10:45) jonathan: type: "the use Lubunca"

(23:10:50) jonathan: *typo

Jonathan trying to fix Niko's typos...
sexuality, typos, irony, turkisms, language
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[link] heard: 2 July 2012
[edit] added: 2 July 2012

you remember what i am talking about? i thought that the song was about michael jackson, but they were just using the future tense ;)

EAN
turkic, turkisms, music, sadness, death, linguistics, time-travel
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[link] heard: 18 March 2012
[edit] added: 18 March 2012

(04:14:07) نىكو: cypriot also has no question particle

(04:14:10) jonathan: oh???

(04:14:18) jonathan: (pun not intended)

puns, weirdness, turkisms, turkic, language, linguistics
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[link] heard: 28 January 2012
[edit] added: 1 February 2012

[чаң]

[...]

мин: "Бер генә булдымы? .. Юк, сәгать өч икән! Нигә бер генә ди?"

[чаң]

мин: "Аа, ике икән."

[... чаң]

мин: "Өч. Булды."

Ростәм: "Белмим, чиркәүдә дүрт тә булырга мөмкен."

мин: "Нигә?"

Ростәм: "Чиркәү булса, һәр ничек була"

Ростәм
turkisms, SSSR, weirdness, scariness, time, religion, turkic
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[link] heard: 24 July 2011
[edit] added: 24 July 2011

(18:05:32) zfe: also tomorrow i'm getting on a boat

(18:05:38) zfe: and a turk will be driving

(18:05:43) zfe: which feels extremely wrong

(18:05:56) zfe: like i get invited by spectie and he cooks me spaghetti

(18:06:13) zfe: or i don't know, vietnam invading usa

(18:06:19) zfe: it really looks upside down

(18:06:27) zfe: a turk and an italian on a boat

(18:06:30) zfe: and the turk is driving

provincialism, technology, bad-ideas, turkisms, craziness, contradiction, food
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[link] heard: 20 June 2011
[edit] added: 20 June 2011

(05:56:07) zfe: Turk dil kurumu

(05:56:22) zfe: the national association for screwing up turkish

(05:56:30) zfe: i can see their building from my window

(05:56:34) zfe: and every day i spend 20-30mins

(05:56:46) zfe: thinking how i could drive a boing 737

(05:56:49) zfe: in their offices

insults, dreams, fire, bad-ideas, politics, badness, language, turkisms, scariness
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[link] heard: 10 February 2011
[edit] added: 10 February 2011

"In Azərbaycan when someone is stupid we call them a Mongol."

Aytan
stupidity, patriotism, SSSR, mongolian, turkisms, provincialism
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[link] heard: 29 February 2008
[edit] added: 29 February 2008

(17:14:36) [me]: I wonder if Turkish F-type keyboards are related to Turkish F-type prisons

(17:14:49) kesuari: ? i think the F comes from first letter

(17:14:54) [me]: oh

(17:15:07) [me]: what about the prisons?

(17:15:17) kesuari: they probably don't have any keys

puns, turkisms, accidents, technology, computers
[comment] [rate] 4/5


[link] heard: 13 January 2008
[edit] added: 13 January 2008

(13:54:40) [me]: the music videos are kind of Turkish too

(13:56:52) Michael: are they vaguely thuggish and/or have beautiful women prancing around in revealing outfits and silly visuals?

(13:57:05) [me]: only the silly visuals

(13:57:19) Michael: yeah, turks are into that

(13:57:25) [me]: one has a bunch of girls getting rained on

(13:57:33) Michael: just randomly?

(13:57:37) [me]: mm, no

(13:57:47) Michael: what a concept.

(13:58:00) Michael: so... you guys are just gonna sing like, you know, your concerts right. .

(13:58:45) Michael: and then, right in the middle, bam! rain.. no umbrellas, either.. then.. uh.. that was my only id ea

music, weather, turkisms, sex, imagination
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[link] heard: 1 December 2007
[edit] added: 30 November 2007

(02:48:09) [anon]: if there is one thing turks are good at (or used to be good at) it's incorporating elements into themselves as if they were always there.

turkisms, omnipotence, compliments, insults, patriotism, time-travel
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[link] heard: 18 March 2007
[edit] added: 18 March 2007

"How do you say ‘to get dressed’ in Turkish? Well, soymak is ‘to strip’.."

turkisms, sex, badness, language, turkic
[comment] [rate] 3.5/5


[link] heard: 13 January 2005
[edit] added: 13 January 2005

(20:58:50) Cem: man im gonna kill the dude that invented english

school, papers, language, patriotism, death, turkisms
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[link] heard: 20 October 2004
[edit] added: 20 October 2004

"The Turks are the borg of the Mediterranean. `Resistance is futile,' you know?"

Arteta, my Spanish prof
spanish, turkisms, star-trek
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[link] heard: 4 September 2003
[edit] added: 20 October 2003

[anon]: "I don't even look Turkish."

Jonathan: "You look vaguely Turkish and vaguely Armenian."

[anon]: "That's just because I haven't shaved."

turkisms, patriotism, hair
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[link] heard: 19 July 2003
[edit] added: 19 July 2003

(03:40:39) [Cem]: yo i have a question for u man, are most college parties in the us like the ones in the usa?

college, weirdness, paradoxes, turkisms, brandeis, stupidity
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[link] heard: unknown
[edit] added: unknown

"This is worse than like F-type Turkish prisons."

in reference to our dorm room
analogies, turkisms, school, hyperbole, patriotism, gradschool
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[link] heard: unknown
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"She's like that Justice Brandeis guy come back as a Turkish girl!"

brandeis, hyperbole, sarcasm, weirdness, turkisms, analogies, sexuality
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[link] heard: unknown
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"I'm Turkish; I can eat as many fortune cookies and get as many fortunes as I want."

immediately after opening his third fortune cookie in 5 minutes (the first fortune he ate with the cookie claiming that's how they're eaten in China, (and then Turkey when we told him no), and the second fell out of the cookie when he dropped it on the floor. The third came out fine.)
culture, stupidity, food, turkisms
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