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Re: The commonfolk's FAQ
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lugnet.faq
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Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:14:12 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Selçuk Göre writes:
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> Shiri Dori wrote:
> > There aren't so many questions up yet, but feel free to contribute! Any
> > questions and/or answers will be gladly accepted. I will do my best to
> > provide answers for unanswered questions. Plus, if someone knows how to
> > pronounce Selçuk's name (Selçuk?) please LMK. ;-)
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> Wow, I'm a FAQ subject..:-) Could it be my "Greatest Claim to LEGO Fame"
> ?..:-)
It's definitely mine! :)
> "Sel-" is like "sell" in "buy-sell-trade" but with a shorter "l" sound.
> "-ç-" is like "ch-" in "chicken" or "chuck". "-u-" is like "-u-" in
> "put". A passable approximation can be "sell-chook" (shorter "l",
> shorter "oo").
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> I can't find any good method to explain "göre" but I can say it is
> definitely not like "gore" in "Al Gore". The best I can say "gör-" is
> like "gir-" in "girl". Add an "a" (as in "A book, a pencil, etc.") to
> the and of it for "-e". Result is "girl a" without "l"..:-)
As with so many things, looking back to the way the English
transliterated the terms is helpful in pronouncing them now.
Because Turkish was originally in Arabic(-esque?) script,
things got spelt in *lots* of different ways. If memory
serves (and why shouldn't it? It'd better!), the name
"Selçuk" also applies to an entire group of Turks, who were
called in 18th- and 19th-century English "Selchuk" or, more
often, "Seljuk." I still see the latter when people are
talking about Ottoman politics. It's like "Pasha," "Pacha,"
and "Pasa" (with the dot under the S, yes?)--the actual
pronunciation is in the middle.
As for göre, I'd been reading it as "goere," using the German
model, which would add an "e" in precisely the way you describe,
as an /uh/.
I've been meaning to ask you, how common are your names in
Turkey? And what is the meaning behind your family name
(Göre)?
best
LFB the omniscient (narf) "Hey, get away with that needle..."
**POW!**
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| (...) :) I must suscribed long ago to the faq group. Sorry abou missing your answer. (...) Yeah, Selçuklu Imparatorlugu or Seljuk Empire, who took the whole Anatolia and more (1071, Malazgirt War), who given birth to Ottoman Empire. (1299, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jul-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Wow, I'm a FAQ subject..:-) Could it be my "Greatest Claim to LEGO Fame" ?..:-) "Sel-" is like "sell" in "buy-sell-trade" but with a shorter "l" sound. "-ç-" is like "ch-" in "chicken" or "chuck". "-u-" is like "-u-" in "put". A passable (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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