{"id":1070,"date":"2010-08-14T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:39","slug":"turkish-delight-well-what-else-could-i-call-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/turkish-delight-well-what-else-could-i-call-this-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish delight (well, what else could I call this post?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Vampire Plagues has arrived in Turkey, or at least\u00a0London<\/em>, the first volume has. As you can see it continues the\u00a0totally not being Twilight in any way shape or form<\/a>vibe. I don’t know whether “Vampir Alacakaranligi” means either “Vampire Plagues” or “Vampire Dusk” but I do know it’s not something to say lightly.<\/p>\n

In fact a lot of Turkish seems to be made up of words that people forgot to stop spelling. Give or take an accent or two, “Jack Harkett lurked beside a pile of weathered tea crates from a Calcutta merchant ship<\/em>” comes out as “Jack Harkett, Kalka\u2019dan gelen bir ticaret gemisinden indirilen g\u00fcnes ve r\u00fczg\u00e2rdan yipranmis \u00e7ay kasalarinin olusturdugu bir yiginin yaninda salaniyordu<\/em>“. And boutros boutros to you, too. “Goodbye, Father<\/em>” is (rather sweetly) “G\u00fcle g\u00fcle, baba<\/em>“. I’m very pleased with myself for tracking down a line in the mass of Turkish text without reference to the English at all:\u00a0“Limon yemek istiyormus da limon onu yemis gibi g\u00f6r\u00fcn\u00fcyor<\/em>” (“She looks like she wanted to suck a lemon, only it sucked her instead<\/em>“.)<\/p>\n

One day – one day, I promise – I will use my Swedish copy of\u00a0Vampyrguden\u00a0<\/em>as a Rosetta Stone for learning my wife’s mother tongue. Learning Turkish, for the time being, goes on the back burner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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