>>>>>>I'm just asking to native americans (except TC Holzer), what's wrong with that map?
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>>>>>>http://i.milliyet.com.tr/YeniAnaResim/2011/02/01/cehaletin-bu-kadari--1123445.Jpeg
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>>>>>I looked at it anyway just to see what it was all about :o) Sad but hilarious too! :o)
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>>>>Does this mean Obama got all our troops out of Iraq? <s>
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>>>Hayir, Obama ortadoguda taslari yerinden oynatmayi basardi gercekten. Misir'la Irak'in yerlerini degistirdi. manasi bu... :)))
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>>Easy for you to say!
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>I don't understand Turkish (I'm guessing it's Turkish), so I tried a translator and this is what was returned:
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>No, Obama is playing the Middle East made a really over stones. "Places of Egypt, Iraq changed." The meaning of this
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>I doubt that's even close.... Metin/Charles? (the quoted part makes sense to me given the map but the rest, no -- so the translation must be WAY off --)

Loosely "Obama has really succeeded in knocking the china off the shelf in the Middle East and this means Egypt has taken the place of Iraq." ( the first part is pretty idiomatic, but if I remember correctly it sort of means messing around without regards to the consequences ) I think the tas is without the tail - i.e. teacup rather than stone. And the verb oynamak is one of those verbs that means "to play" but is used in a lot of compound - like "make" or "have" in English. "oynatmak" is to make someone play ... basardi ( with a tail on the s pronounced sh ) is the past tense of basarmak - to acheive or accomplish. So the whole thing could mean "has succeeded in knocking the china off the shelf in the Middle East" But it's been over 30 years since I used it every day ...

Interesting language - lots of verbal nouns and suffix construction.

Metin : "taslari yerinden oynatmak" ne demek ? "making the teacups fall off" ? "yer yerinden oynasa" yani ?