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The most off-topic WCDT discussion ever
Carl-E:
Turkey, Turkmenistan, it's all the same... :roll:
Re: Chechnya / Czechoslovakia...
TinPenguin:
'Turkic' might be the more accurate term. And it's not a different thing entirely... where do you think the Turks came from to begin with?
KOK:
--- Quote from: Masterpiece on 11 May 2013, 10:18 ---
--- Quote from: KOK on 11 May 2013, 10:00 ---A major Turkish state right at the border of China's Turkish speaking provinces is a nightmare to the Chinese government.
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Turkeys border is miles away from China. So I'm not entirely sure what you're saying.
If you mean Turkmen state, that's a different thing entirely.
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"Turkey" as a state is what is left of the Osmannian empire. The ancestral homeland of the Turks is in central Asia, and many of them still live there. But if you insist that "Turkish" refers to the state, then "Turkish speaking". Anyway, a large part of this "Turkestan", as some call it, is in China. The rest is split into four former Sovjet republics. Four, not five. That is one of the reason that these five republics disolved the union. Tadsjikistan did not want to be a Persian speaking minority in a Turkish union.
Masterpiece:
See, this is terminology I can get around with. Yes I knew that Turks came out of China, but Turkmenistan and the Turkic states are quite different compared to Turkey. For one, while the language comes from the same root, Turkic languages use a lot more different vocabulary and grammar, mainly because the Turkish language acquired a lot of European vocabulary during their stint as the Ottoman Empire and a lot of Arabic when they were their warriors (and later, their leaders).
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 11 May 2013, 06:01 ---It, like "Huckleberry Finn" is a story of its times, and we should feel shamed that things were once like that.
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Except Huck Finn did not take the world of its times for granted and was in fact implicitly critical.
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