Arguments
Technically in Turkish it is possible to make a grammatically correct word that contains an endless number of letters, as Turkish is an agglutinative language. But, when the same suffix is used too many times, the word will be incomprehensible. Although it is possible to derive longer and still meaningful words like kuyruksallayangillersizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine (as "kuyruksallayangiller", meaning Motacillidae, is the longest word to be found in spelling dictionaries along with "ademimerkeziyetçilik" and "elektroansefalografi", each with 20 letters as opposed to "muvaffakiyetsiz" which has only 15 letters), the word muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine is popularly accepted as the longest word, illustrated by the following situation:
Kötü amaçların güdüldüğü bir öğretmen okulundayız. Yetiştirilen öğretmenlere öğrencileri nasıl muvaffakiyetsizleştirecekleri öğretiliyor. Yani öğretmenler birer muvaffakiyetsizleştirici olarak yetiştiriliyorlar. Fakat öğretmenlerden biri muvaffakiyetsizleştirici olmayı, yani muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştirilmeyi reddediyor, bu konuda ileri geri konuşuyor. Bütün öğretmenleri kolayca muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriverebileceğini sanan okul müdürü bu duruma sinirleniyor, ve söz konusu öğretmeni makamına çağırıp ona diyor ki: "Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine laflar ediyormuşsunuz ha?"
We are in a teachers' training school which has evil purposes. How to make unsuccessful ones is being taught to the teachers who are being educated in that school. So teachers are educated as makers of unsuccessful ones. However one of those teachers refuses to be maker of unsuccessful ones, in other words, to be made a maker of unsuccessful ones, he talks about and criticizes the school's stand on the issue. The headmaster who thinks every teacher can be made easily/quickly into a maker of unsuccessful ones gets angry. He invites the teacher to his room and says "You are talking as if you were one of those we can not easily/quickly turn into a maker of unsuccessful ones, right?"
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Famous quotes containing the word arguments:
“Children are intensely invested in getting their way. They will devote more emotional and intellectual energy to winning arguments than parents ever will, and are almost always better rested.”
—Jean Callahan (20th century)
“We are seeing an increasing level of attacks on the “selfishness” of women. There are allegations that all kinds of social ills, from runaway children to the neglected elderly, are due to the fact that women have left their “rightful” place in the home. Such arguments are simplistic and wrongheaded but women are especially vulnerable to the accusation that if society has problems, it’s because women aren’t nurturing enough.”
—Grace Baruch (20th century)
“Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)