xodedave

a northern kurdish name is similar to "god-given".
(26/12/2008 23:51)

xoxide wyanoke

an expression in eastern kurdish language is like "i think so".
(26/12/2008 23:42)

ceteris paribus

lat. with all other factors or things remaining the same.
(26/12/2008 23:35)

frank mccourt

an irish-american writer who received pulitzer prize in 1997. his best seller is "angela's ashes" that he tells the story of his childhood that he lived in abject poverty with his family in ireland and the usa in 1930s. the most dramatic chapter of the book is the fourth which he tells how the twins died.



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i know oliver is dead and malachy knows oliver is dead but eugene is too small to know anything. when he wakes in the morning he says, ollie, ollie, and toddles around the room looking under the beds or he climbs up on the bed by the window and points to children on the street, especially children with fair hairlike him and oliver. ollie, ollie, he says, and mam picks up, sobs, hugs him. he struggles to get down because he doesn't want to be picked up and hugged. he wants to find oliver.

dad and mam tell him oliver is in heaven playing with angels and we'll all see him again someday but he doesn't understand because he's only two and doesn't have the words and that's the worst thing in the whole world. malachy and i play with him. we try to make him laugh. we make funny faces. we put pots on our heads and pretend to let them fall off. we run across the room and pretend to fall down. we take him to the people's park to see the lovely flowers, play with dogs, roll in the grass.

he sees small children with fair hair like oliver. he doesn't say ollie anymore. he only points. dad says eugene is lucky to have brothers like malachy and me because we help him forget and soon, with god's help, he'll have no memory of oliver at all.

he died anyway.

(mccourt, 1996, p. 86)

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(26/12/2008 23:17)

thedict

the website that is at the outset of its career. it is the subject of the following dialogue:

a- have you ever heard the dict, a new website?
b- is this a new porn site?

(see: correct spelling)


(25/12/2008 18:39)

loser

a person species who was called as "disconnectus erectus" by oguz atay, a turkish novelist.
(25/12/2008 08:49)

son of a bitch

a compliment expression that are used in spanish.

(see: de puta madre)
(25/12/2008 03:49)

chinese democracy

a nonentity. just like bush's brain.
(25/12/2008 03:34)

turkey

the country which has a lot of terrible things: tayyip (you know), ismail yk (indescribable), melih gokcek, coals, penal codes, deniz baykal (never be known), photographers who take photos in istiklal street, bus drivers, etc.. but she also has good things: friendly people, undecided voters, umut sarikaya, ssg (a professional dancer), delicious foods, and.. i don't know. if someone kisses you, it doesn't mean he/she is a gay. seriously. a country. she's my beautiful country.
(25/12/2008 03:15)

orhan pamuk

a novelist who was accused of treason felony, was threatened, was forced to leave his country. genius of turkish language. his novels which were translated in english; "cevdet bey and his sons", "the silent house", "the white castle", "the black book", "the new life", "my name is red", "snow". i think, it could never be written a perfect novel than kara kitap (the black book) in the turkish language.
(25/12/2008 02:46)

sayfa:

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