The last time i heard the phrase Learning Turkish was in Anakra one or two years back, where a pretty solid english marxist scholar met the man of his life who happened to be a turk at a late dinner party, after which he said I want to learn turkish I wish i could speak turkish.
----- Original Message ---- From: Sabri Oncu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:09:34 AM Subject: Learning Turkish As I did not have to worry about learning Turkish as much as Louis did, since I was born into that language, let me tell you this: The Turkish we speak since the birth of the republic is an ever changing language: I was not able to fully understand newspaper articles from the 1940s when I was in my 20s and I doubt that someone in his 20s in these days can fully understand such articles from the 1970s any better than I did 20 years ago. Here is an excellent book on the last 300 years of the Ottomans: The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 by Donald Quataert http://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-1700-1922-Approaches-European-History/dp/0521547822 I tell you this much: I am NOT TURKISH. I am OSMANLI (that is, OTTOMAN, as you know it). Best, Sabri __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
