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the english public was persuaded by a venal press that a druse was a kind of protestant suffering martyrdom at the hands of papistical maronites but if england protects she must also restrain and the duty of ending this nonsense obviously fell on the british consul-general who accomplished it with all the skill of one accustomed to oriental incidents first he persuaded the christians to remain on the defensive then we drove to abadea the moonlight was streaming in the enormous rocky gorge of the beirut river and here and there a lebanese gendarme set to guard the road started up from some dark corner into the white glow to salute us his strange costume so fantastic in the moonlight that the whole scene seemed to stiffen into cardboard and one waited to hear the music of some absurd oriental opera by herold or rossini there were few enough of these gendarmes and they would have had a poor show if the druses had risen in earnest vividly the moon shone now on aberdeer on the little fortress-like houses on the runic carvings of an old druse tomb mysterious beneath a splendid chestnut-tree and on the worn brown stones and red tiles of the old courtyard where we halted in syria you can see colours quite distinctly by the light of a full moon we were admitted and welcomed at the narrow door and first of all paid a brief visit to the wounded old gentleman who had caused all the trouble he lay there very cheerful on pink and green cushions suggestive of the mohammedan paradise then while the consul worked hard at conciliation i talked amiably with the lesser notables they were still undecided about that massacre and they had enjoyed themselves greatly shooting about all day at nothing in particular hence the little accident to the missionaries house but as they would never have dreamt of massacring us conversation on the usual syrian topics what will the italians do what will the french do flowed comfortably the whole affair was soon brilliantly settled by the consul-general and the wildest spirits having been calmed we drove home by midnight what utter foolery is enough to start a massacre in the east but let no injustice be done to the lebanon its security in the last fifty years has after all been never seriously troubled laugh at its botched-up government if you will and then remember that it possesses the only countryside in the turkish empire the southern environs of constantinople excepted where you can enjoy a picnic without the presence of an armed guard and even let the governess take the children for a walk alone Some months after I saw the smoke and heard the distant rumble of the Battle of Lemnos, the one effort made by the Turks to secure the mastery of the Aegean.

A pretty sight it had been that morning to pass the Turkish fleet, cleared for action and lined across the entrance to the Dardanelles, while a little destroyer spluttered up from the west to give them news of the foe.

it was one of those indescribable winter days on the aegean with a hot sun and a piping breeze the water was all lace blue and silver and the windmills of tenedos world fit to break tenedos diver zopem quoted to me the new armenian governor of lebanon to my great pleasure yet how can the place ever have been rich i agreed it was strange that little windy rock looks as if it had never produced anything more planterous than stone crops since the creation we were near mytilene when we heard the guns thrilling enough it was to me fired with the glory that is greece this fight against the unspeakable for that greek and christian sea not so however to the trio of american ladies aboard for all that they were on their devout way from athens to jerusalem impossible to make these pious folk understand that greece and christianity were no mere phantoms of the past but were still alive and with excellent guns even kicking at last in despair of a waking interest and hoping to horrify i said to one of them but men are killing each other over there you know She put up her eye-glass at me.

"'Nonsense!' she said, and walked down to lunch.

No one can agree upon.

And the Russian guy thinks it's like a Turkish person and the Turkish person thinks it's an Italian person.

Yeah.

There's like, and so there's an incomprehensibility to this conversation.

Oh, yeah.

It is now in Hindi and Spanish and French and Brazilian Portuguese and German and Japanese and Turkish and also Korean and also Italian and also Polish.

So I basically targeted every spoken language over 50 million speakers in sort of the Western world that can access this tool.

Right.

The grey-mustached man took my passport.

and luckily opened it to a page covered with Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, and other incomprehensible official stampings.

It was simply too much of a mess for him.

He was too much of a gentleman to go into that sort of thing.

This story will doubtless sound familiar enough to English ears, for a similar tale is found in our modern collections of so-called Aesop's Fables.

Professor Benfay has further traced it in medieval French, German, Turkish, and Indian literature.

But it may have been much older than any of these books, for the fable possibly gave rise to a proverb of which we find traces among the Greeks as early as the time of Plato.

Lucian gives the fable in full, localizing it at Cumae in South Italy, and Julian has given us a Chinese version in his Avadanas, Erasmus, in his work on Proverbs, alludes to the fable, and so also does our own Shakespeare in King John.

Rosh and Mallory are at home and she's looking down in the dumps.

He says, why is your face like toilet right now? So she makes him some Turkish tea, which he says is meh, but they go on the porch to drink it because that's what we do in the South.

And then they have the whole, I don't know if I want to have kids conversation that I think is not real and or reenacted.

She's like, as of right now, I don't know if I want to have a baby.

Three, the epic preterite debate.

Four, the third Turkish option.

And five, tense and other tools.

Why tense is a choice.

But Katja Melman's 2019 study suggested something different, that it doesn't mark a tense, but a change in modality instead.

Melman found that in some languages, this modality function is served by grammatical forms that mark the source of information, which is a concept known as evidentiality.

How does this work in a language with a third option? The third Turkish option.

This brilliantly illustrates what English is missing, which linguists Aksukac and Slobin examined.

And the other problem is how do you deal with the the the influx of people? And I bring this up because in other countries.

um the way that they determine who gets into certain schools is entrance and exit exams it's not just your location it's actually do you qualify and they have you know these huge batteries of exams that determine you know what what you go to and i you know i used to live in turkey i actually saw this up close and these were high school kids who, you know, this was not a metropolitan area, but a fairly industrial sort of working class Turkish area.

And these high school students not only spoke English, but also German and were able to sketch like engine parts, you know, from memory.

It was actually pretty damn impressive.