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Re: Languages of Lego
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Date: 
Mon, 8 May 2000 15:48:46 GMT
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Selçuk Göre <ssgore@superonline.com> wrote in message
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Add Turkish catalogs (published since 1984 or 1985) to the list. They
are originally from TLC itself, since they always have a "Turkish as a
second language" type of style. The usual warning messages on the boxes
are started to be seen in Turkish too.

Selçuk

I don't have any idea of what Turkish looks like.  What alphabet is used?
Brickshelf Catalogue scans from 1984(cme) and 1985(cme)  show what I thought
to be Arabic.  Are these the catalogues that you are referring or are you
speaking of different ones?   Maybe, I'm completely wrong.
Could I be mistaking  Turkish for Arabic?  I thought Turkish used a
different alphabet than Arabic now.   Please, could you/would you clarify
any of this for me?
thanks,
sheree



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  Re: Languages of Lego
 
You are right, we are using latin alphabet right now (with the addition of some letters -ü, ç, ö, and two others that I can't represent here- and exclusive of q, w and x) since 1920's. Look at the 1985 Middle East catalog again: (URL) you can see (...) (25 years ago, 9-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  

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  Re: Languages of Lego
 
(...) Add Turkish catalogs (published since 1984 or 1985) to the list. They are originally from TLC itself, since they always have a "Turkish as a second language" type of style. The usual warning messages on the boxes are started to be seen in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)

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