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Jim and Peri's Blogs of September 2007 The Learning Practical Turkish Website September 4, 2007 Blog » Circumcision Monologues #4 -- A Boy's (and a Father's) Worst Nightmare About Circumcision The parents of a 10-year-old boy from Bursa had become eager recently to have their son circumcised -- even at the boy's advanced age for the procedure. So they made arrangements to have it done by an unlicensed person who was known locally as a sünnetçi (circumcision practitioner). During the procedure (that was performed in a spare room attached to the city parking lot), the boy began to scream in pain... Continue reading "Circumcision in a public parking lot"...» September 2, 2007 Blog » Sharpen your translation skills on these politically incorrect Maganda cartoons The humorous quality of a politically incorrect Maganda cartoon transforms it into a translation inspiration... You won't give up... exercising your inquisitive 'all' to extract the correct meaning regardless of the difficulty of the sentence... because you know that when you finally do 'break the code', there'll be a rewarding chuckle... that'll make your translation success that much more satisfying... Continue reading "Humor helps you translate Turkish"...» September 1, 2007 Blog » 'Erotik' Movie History: Öyle Bir Kadın Ki The Plot, Illustrated 4/5 At first, the movie-plot of Öyle Bir Kadın Ki (A Woman Like That), idly follows the amorous antics of 6 yerli tourists (2 mixed couples and 2 single girls, on a 4 day holiday) and 2 local men -- during the lazy summer of 1979 along the Black Sea coast of Turkey. But, when Metin (one of the husbands) begins to covet the dissatisfied wife of the leading man (a rich construction-magnate), the movie's storyline turns distinctly serious and sinister... Continue reading "The Movie's Plot, Illustrated"... » Extra: 'Turkish Movies, etc. Catalog' Index of pages Öyle Bir Kadın Ki -- The Plot, Illustrated Related: TV Bloopers -- Mehmet Ali Erbil Two Turkish Guys who rack up the TV Ratings Alev Altın -- The Turkish Traci Lords? The Short Unhappy Life of Mine Mutlu 'Öyle Bir Kadın Ki' -- What led up to it? The Rise of Turkey's Erotic Films Industry The Birth and Growth of the Turkish Films Industry Language-learning pages: How To Learn Basic Turkish -- A Practical Philosophy for beginners (Found in the 'Introduction to The Whole Earth Catalog of Turkish Movies'.) Why Off-color language is important too... Translating Turkish, the basics Essential Turkish Vocabulary Pretty Good Pronoun Charts Turkish Verbs Essential Idioms, Index Essential Suffixes, Index Sentence Structure, Standard Turkish Pronunciation Turkish Accenting Numbers in Turkish Turkish Adjective Heaven -- or hell? Other Turkish Language Difficulties Unrelated fun: Frequently asked questions about Turkey and the Turkish language llustrated Nargile Users Guide -- and Encyclopedia Our Honda Generator -- A Member of the Family Profiles of the Turkish People Turkish Terms Of Endearment Turkish Personal Names Politically Incorrect Turkish Humor Gossipy Turkish Who's Who Turkish Kinsey Report #1 - Turkey opens up about its seks Turkish Kinsey Report #2 - Did they hear it through the grapevine? Turkish Kinsey Report #3 - Was it good for you? Turkish Kinsey Report #4 - The first time, by age group... Turkish Kinsey Report #5 - Who's gotta have it? He? Or she? Hülya Avşar (and friends) give frikik Translating Danielle Steele

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