Mustafa Eric

“the only word one can think of that it might fail to enunciate correctly is agabey (elder brother), pronounced /abi/, and a thorough programmer could take care of that.”
― Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

“Oh you only think you know all I know. I don’t even know what all I know. Half the time I just make it up, and it still turns out to be true! We learned that trick in the fifties. Tomorrow,”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition

“The trouble was that, although Atatiirk liked nothing better than a good argument, none of his intimates had the guts to say `Very amusing as an after-dinner game, Pasha, but we mustn't take it too seriously, must we?' On the contrary, they
played the same game. This being long before the age of political correctness, Samih Rifat, the president of TDK, found the origin of the Western word academy in the Turkish ak `white' and adam [A] `man'.”
― Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success

“The title of the article sums up his argument very neatly: `Arap Harflerini de Cebrail Getirmemisti ya' (Gabriel didn't bring the Arabic letters too, you know) (Levend 1972: 397).”
― Geoffrey Lewis, The Turkish Language Reform: A Catastrophic Success