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robinturner "Turkey never fully appreciated how important deadlines were for us," the senior American official said. "They did not give priority to Washington's timeline."
How droll. This is Turkey, for God's sake. As anyone who has taught a class here knows, "deadline" means "the date when you start thinking about doing something."
Variation on a corny old linguists' joke ...
At an international sociolinguistics conference, a Spanish professor presented a paper on the word "manana" as a discourse strategy. At the end, he asked the audience if there was an equivalent word in their own language. The Turkish delegate stood up and said, "Yes, there is, but it doesn't carry quite the same sense of urgency"
How droll. This is Turkey, for God's sake. As anyone who has taught a class here knows, "deadline" means "the date when you start thinking about doing something."
Variation on a corny old linguists' joke ...
At an international sociolinguistics conference, a Spanish professor presented a paper on the word "manana" as a discourse strategy. At the end, he asked the audience if there was an equivalent word in their own language. The Turkish delegate stood up and said, "Yes, there is, but it doesn't carry quite the same sense of urgency"
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Deadlines
Date: 2003-03-24 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-24 05:20 am (UTC)