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[classical_hero]

I did this and laughed until I teared up, so I'd say it's worth a shot for everyone.

That was pure genius.

 

[Kennigit]

Yea, that was fantastic. Just read through

 

[Borachio]

When I was much younger I could wink maybe two or three times a day.

Now, though, it's more like once a week.

Very sad.

What on Earth did anyone think I meant?!

OK now everybody re-read this thread but replace the i in wink with an a. Hilarity ensues.

I see the demand for the least bit of subtlety on CFC at
the moment is in very short supply. I am ver ver disappoint.

welllll played

Somewhat surprisingly, the part I found most hilarious was your own previous post.

Just did it. I giggled like a French girl.

We have a winner!!! ^^^^

practice at home imo

Gor blimey love a duck guv'nor!

Can I show you a good time for sixpence?​

 

[Hygro]

Wow, very well played Borachio.

 

[Antilogic]

That was a deep play right there.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

These colors don't run.

America: The belief that there was a freedom and then that freedom made other freedoms magically for no reason, creating everything and then a founding father convinced someone to dump some tea and everything was magically different for no reason and turned into states and actually dinosaurs were American too.

Makes perfect sense.

 

[Flying Pig]

On the supposedly imminent replacement of Turkish in Turkey with Arabic:

"Kasim, I have been thinking: the teachings of Islam have withered too much in our country, and we should strive more to adhere to them"

"I think you might be up to something Cemal. So you think we should completely stop using the language we have been raised with, that all our friends, family and aquintances use, as well as being the language we percieve the world with?"

"Absolutely, Kasim. From now on we shall completely switch to a foreign language we only know of in stiff archaic phrases"

then Kasim and Cemal went to town and got drunk

 

[gay_Aleks]

the only issue with this is that it should be Qasim and Kemal

 

[Kyriakos]

On the supposedly imminent replacement of Turkish in Turkey with Arabic:

Well, Turkey changed alphabet from arabic to latin (ie Euboean greek ) around 90 years ago, so it is not like they have much to lose by switching that back. The language will follow.

 

[Flying Pig]

You mean like the Latin language followed from adopting the Latin alphabet?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

You mean like the Latin language followed from adopting the Latin alphabet?

Home run.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Ehm, actually arabic is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic? So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?

 

[Lohrenswald]

^Ehm, actually latin is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic? So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?

also I was quoted hooray

 

[Timsup2nothin]

^Ehm, actually arabic is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic? So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?

So, it looks like you are playing the outfield...and watched the home run sail over your head.

So, slowing things down on the instant replay...

You suggested "switch alphabet and language will follow."

Flying Pig pointed out that of all the countries that have adopted the latin alphabet, not enough switched to the latin language to even keep it alive.

Conclusion: switch to the alphabet and the language will follow is clearly inaccurate.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Ehm, actually latin is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic, but it is not used by any islamic country. So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?



(@Tim: while i did leave an opening, it wasn't the one you mentioned. Btw, i don't think Turkey will adopt the language of arabs, yet it can well bring back the arabic alphabet, as it had since it adopted it for turkic).

 

[gay_Aleks]

^Ehm, actually latin is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic? So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?

also I was quoted hooray

Alhazen doesn't real?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

^Ehm, actually latin is a language somewhat more tied to cultural/scientific achievements than... turkic, but it is not used by any islamic country. So home run just got lost in the never-ending central asian steppe, emirite?



(@Tim: while i did leave an opening, it wasn't the one you mentioned. Btw, i don't think Turkey will adopt the language of arabs, yet it can well bring back the arabic alphabet, as it had since it adopted it for turkic).

When you have thrown the hanging curve ball and gotten it knocked out of the park the only graceful thing to do is admire the flight, then get a new ball from the umpire. All this "what I really meant was..." deflection will never bring that ball back.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Well, yeah, but sometimes i suppose that it is evident that i am not so tenuously tied to logic that i would mean what i wrote.

Hm, wait, that didn't come out as i planned.



(bottom story being that Turkey will not adopt arabic language cause they have various hatred-filled issues with arabs, yet they can easily re-adopt the alphabet given their ancestors did the same).

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

You'd need to then factor out the effects of being kidnapped or having family members kidnapped.

Oh wow, now I have this image of a "control kidnapping" where the parents in disguise kidnap their own kids.

 

[r16]

the language change mentioned between pages 69 and 70 is a long term goal , in the general radicalization concepts much prevalent in the West , hence applied in the East . ı tend to have other places to rant on that . Though slowly slowly catchee monkee version of kindergarten teaching seems to have backfired ; a new Education reform is reportedly in the works . And Cemal and Kemal are different names , but ı guess this is not the joke there .