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Jim and Peri's Blogs of September 2007 The Learning Practical Turkish Website
September 4, 2007
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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...
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September 2, 2007
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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...
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September 1, 2007
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'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...
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