Rough Translations
 Going to the glass ware shop in the mall, midget ceramics artisan Celali Hoca Cabi pocketed ornamental glass rods with chinese writings inside.- This sour (lemon) is an old sour (lemon).
- The dog entered the mill, the miller has beaten it, it both has been beaten and ate a bran.
- Alis and Memis have gone to court. Have they been judged or not?
- This is a very old, traditional Turkish tongue twister. It doesn't make much sense when you think about the meaning but it is about two old, possums with dirty, torn furs. It is about their conversation when they meet in the mountains.
- A drop fell from the sky, plop, on my forehead, plop on my mother's forehead, plop, on my forehead, plop on my mother's forehead, plop, on my forehead, plop on my mother's forehead, ... German: Vom Himmel tropfte ein Tropfen, blub auf meinen Stirn, blub auf den Stirn meiner Mutter, blub auf meinen Stirn, blub auf den Stirn meiner Mutter, ...
- People whose sound to be shrunk in Shemsi Pasha shopping arcade (?).
- Was it possible for us to czechoslovakize you or was it not possible for us to czechoslovakize you?
- This side is summer side, that side is winter side, the water bottle is in the middle.
- Should we put this yoghurt away after adding garlic to it, or before adding garlic to it?
- One barber said to another barber, "Come on, brother, let's open a barbershop together!
- Should we add garlic to this yoghurt before eating it or should we not add garlic to this yoghurt before eating it?
- The branch rises the eagle sinks, the eagle sinks the branch rises.
- Should we whitewash this wall or should we not whitewash it?
- In Catalcada a bump-headed lame shepherd made a slingshot and sold it. German: In Tschataldscha machte ein beulenköpfiger, lahmer Hirte eine Gabelschleuder und verkaufte sie.
- They have added the torn fur of the male, bald, blind porcupine with a torn fur, to the torn fur of the female, bald, blind porcupine with a torn fur and they have added the torn fur of the female, bald, blind porcupine with a torn fur to the torn fur of the male, bald, blind porcupine with a torn fur. (They have added the torn fur of the porcupines to each other's torn furs!)
- Overthere, there is a raven. It has a bald, large black beak. German: Dort drüben ist eine Krähe. Es hat einen kahlen, dicken und schwarzen Schnabel.
- The dentist that drew the teeth out of swollen jaws outside, let the teeth, that had fallen to pieces fall into a pool, because he was pinched.
- The eagle stands, the branch sticks out. The branch sticks out, the eagle stands.
- Forty eagles, forty sleep, forty are awake.
- Take those tumults to tumulter, if the tumulter doesn't tumult the tumults, take the tumults from the tumulter without having tumulted.
- Forty jars whose handles are broken (off).
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- Hakki form the coffee shop across the street that has long broken nose and ugly face added some roasted caules (bits of wood ?) to the coffee with great haste when no one is looking.
- Dialogue: (A) Did the rabbit pass through the door? (B) It did. (A) Did you catch it? (B) I did. (A) Did you carve it? (B) I did. (A) Did you salt it? (B) I did. (A) Did you cook it? (B) I did. (A) Did you leave some for me? (B) I did. (A) Which cupboard did you put it in? (B) The click-click one. (A) So bring it? (B) I can't. (A) Why? (B) Black cats have eaten it. (A) uhh..ohh..Meuww.
- I went down to the bottom of the well. I wiped, I swept, shook myself off and came out.
- a bronze bowl of unique nectar
- Take these bummers to the bummer, if the bummer doesn't bum the bummers, bring back the bummers unbummed.
- One is twice, one is two, five is gold, five, six, if you don't believe count yourself! sixteen, sixteen.
- Small small ones, hardworking twos, lazy threes, beaten fours, steady working fives, gold stolen sixes, sevens ate my meals, hopscotched the eigths, faded the nines as doctors, tens the red tongs.
- Hakký has eaten Hakký's portion, so Hakký requested his portion from Hakký, when Hakký didn't give Hakký his portion, Hakký has beaten Hakký. (Hakký = Turkish male name but also hak/hakký = division, portion, partition)
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- You turned out to be one of those whom we may not be able to quickly make a person who makes other people unsuccessful
- A triangle's area is equal to the half of the multiplication of its base times its height. Turkish: Bir üçgenin alaný tabanýyla yüksekliðinin çarpýmýnýn yarýsýna eþittir.
- Şinasi (man's name), that water bottle is your last chance.
- I gathered wood, kindling wood, I took and took and put it on my mother's roof.
- I climbed up into the fig tree, I ate the unripe ones and such
- that record player (far away), this record player (here), that record player (there)
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Gulnihal Antepli, Ibrahim Arit, Ceyda Arslan, Bob Beer, Bora Bodur, Yildiz Bolat, Ilker Capoglu, Eda Coþkuner, Utkan Demirci, Doga Dogu, Yusuf Ziya Durmus, Tugberk Emirzade, Yonca Ermutlu, Cenk Feridunoglu, Özlem Gunduz, Figen Hasimoglu, Fenna Hendriks, Helmut Kalb, Maksut Karakurt, Jan Kiezebrink, Burcu Kiliç, Baybora Leo, Jim Masters, M. Emin Onuk, Kemal Özden, Yetis Ozkan, Sammas Salur, Konuralp Sunal, Levent Unal
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