• glimse@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    2 days ago

    What the fuck, the English stole everything that wasn’t bolted down and they didn’t take THAT with them? PRIORITIES, guys. Skip the French crap and integrate THIS

    • BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 days ago

      We can still do it. Time to ask what the turkish word is so we can integrate them into our Frankenstein language

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        I looked it up earlier and don’t remember the exact characters so forgive the romanization but it’s basically changing “di” to “mis” at the end of verbs.

        “It rained” vs “apparently it rained” when you did not actually see it raining but the sidewalk is wet.

        “Ali is sick” vs “Ali is supposedly sick” when you did not confirm it (or perhaps doubt Ali’s claim??)

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          2 days ago

          Thanks for making it clearer. Just to add actual turkish so people can see properly :

          Yağmur yağdı > It rained
          Yağmur yağmış > It’s been said that it rained

          Ali hasta > Ali is sick
          Ali hastamış > It’s been said that Ali is sick

          Yağmur > rain
          yağ > to spread/to rain
          dı > past indicator
          mış > second person reporting, past

          hasta > sick

          • ttayh@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            1 day ago

            wait, is that yag also the root for yogurt? sorry for the lack of diacritics

            • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 day ago

              https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yoğurt

              Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوغورت (yoğurt), from Proto-Turkic *yogrut (“curdled, coagulated milk”),[1] from *yogur- (“to knead, to fluff up, to condense”) +‎ *-ut.[2][3] By surface analysis, yoğur- (“to knead”) +‎ -t.

              You can copy and paste them from the Wikipedia article on the Turkish alphabet, or my post if you want