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[mehmet]

One of the by-products of the division is that there developed a generation gap between those Turkish Cypriots who are bilingual and those who aren't. As a child if my elders wish to discuss something adult they would speak in Greek in our presence.

[brother]

Hey my family use to do that as well.

[Bananiot]

Well, my late father, who spoke some turkish, use to tell me off in turkish when I misbehaved. They were good times my friends. Will we ever re live them?

[Piratis]

use to tell me off in turkish when I misbehaved

Thats the kind of Turkish we all know

[MicAtCyp]

You know there are a lot of quarrels regarding the lands in the neutral zone.Some TCs let the Gcs cultivate the land but when harvest time comes they go there with the protection of some Trurkish tanks and they collect everything.Do you know who do this more often? The TCs of Louroutzina! And because everybody knows those people were actually GCs in the past they say the "worst" TCs are those who were GCs in the past.
Sorry Mehmet, I did not mean to offend you, actually I am offending my own race who has a tradition in fighting and not getting very well among ourselves.

I also heard somewhere that the most nationalistic TCs seem to have Christian roots. The same happened in the Ottoman empire, regarding the janissary.

[Bananiot]

He knew more than the swear word Piratis. By the way, Stelios Mayiopoulos, in his excellent book on Nasdredin Hotca, claims that there is no better language to tell a joke than in turkish. I wonder, is that so? Also, I find turkish when spoken by women to be very lyrical, almost poetic and sensual. Its another story when spoken by men! Has anyone else noticed this?

[MicAtCyp]

Thats the kind of Turkish we all know

Due to ignorance of course. Which does not add any compliments to us
There is wisdom and warmth in every language, all you have to do is search and find it.

Also, I find turkish when spoken by women to be very lyrical, almost poetic and sensual. Its another story when spoken by men! Has anyone else noticed this?

Hmmm, just for once I completely agree with you on that. I did notice it also.

[Piratis]

Italian is poetic. Turkish is almost as heavy as German. At least thats the way it sounds to me.

He knew more than the swear word.

There are more than just one well known Turkish swear words.

[insan]

The Greek word(s) I remember my divorced parents used:

Endaksi

The Greek words I remember my deceased granny used:

Manamu, kokona, kokot, drabez, mavro yerimo.

The Greek words I remember my farmer deceased grand dad used:

Mavromadi, Albino, Batsali.

The Greek words I remeber my Aunt used:

U banaiyamu!, Gorimo

The Greek words I remeber my deceased uncle used:

G*****don Gabilessu!

He was an voivoda

The Greek words I remeber my deceased step grand dad used:

Hadde re nacimihi dudos!

He was a blonde, blue eyed Lourijinaites ... He had a good reputation... He was called Luricadi Huseyin Dayi

[Bananiot]

Excellent insan. I understood evey single one, exept voivoda, but I haven't given it much thought, to be honest.

Here are some of my experiences:

My mother used to say to me: ashoile!
Then, my father, when he wanted to know if I understood something: agnatin?
I used to hear this a lot, especially during heated arguments: vallahi villahi
Also, if someone was not up to learning new things (like Piratis for example): besh tampoura dort okka
If someone saw the point but it was too late (hopefully we will solve it before its too late): bayram soranta

A question: Does anyone know what a simirlis is? Probably it has to do with Egypt.