{"id":10087,"date":"2006-09-07T07:18:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/09\/07\/how-languages-change.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:18:55","slug":"how_languages_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/07\/how_languages_c.html","title":{"rendered":"How languages change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable article on Language Log about <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/003552.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">how everyday Turkish is being changed by the media<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not any sort of intentional change, but it has to do with English-language movies being imported into Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you say, that&#8217;s not unusual.  Picking up foreign words and incorporating them into your language is how languages stay healthy and evolve.  Heck, English is a great example of this.  <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not <em>English<\/em>, but how English is being <em>dubbed into Turkish, <\/em>that&#8217;s causing the change.  When dubbing, translators come up with words and phrases to lip-sync as close as possible to what&#8217;s on the screen.  As a result, &#8220;Hello&#8221; gets translated to <em>Sel\u00e2m, <\/em>rather than the more traditional Turkish <em>Merhaba<\/em>. And exclamations of surprise (&#8220;Wow!&#8221;) are being translated <em>Vavvvv!<\/em> rather than the more traditional <em>Vay anas\u0131m\u0131!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>And as things become standards in the media, they become standards in common speech.<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remarkable article on Language Log about how everyday Turkish is being changed by the media. 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