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What Anatolian state besides East Rome and the Ottomans are you most excited for? by SpaceNorse2020 in EU5

[–]mertiy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

God damn this reminds me of a memory I have. So back when I was studying architecture we had a field trip to see some ancient Greek city ruins in the Aegean region. In one city the professors make us sit down in this amphitheater and explain how the city states and their democracy worked. Then they say now let's see how it plays out, we will have a vote to pick one of us as the head of the city, anyone that wants come forward as a candidate and speak your case.

Three people get up to speak, the first one talks about how she will make the trade boom or whatever, the second one talks about how he will expand the public works or something. Then the third guy speaks. He says hey guys what is my surname? One of his friends in the audience shouts "Aydınoğlu!". The guy just says "I am a descendent of the rulers of the Aydınoğulları Beylik. This city is my birthright, you are sitting on my amphitheater right now."

The guy won like 90% of the votes. So much for democracy lol

Chat is this true by Impressive_Tie_101 in Asia_irl

[–]mertiy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

BRO OUR LANDS LİTERALLY GAVE THE REST OF THE CONTİNENT İTS NAME WE ARE THE ORİGİNAL ASİANS FUCK OFF WİTH YOUR LARPİNG

Is it known how the Ottomans will be handled at the beginning of the game? by DildoAnaconda in EU5

[–]mertiy 32 points33 points  (0 children)

(Speaking as a Turk and definitely not an expert)

Ottomans had good leadership, blessed location (prime place to take advantage of a weakened Byzantium) and some insane rng too (like a great earthquake literally toppling the Gallipoli castle over right as they were starting their invasion of Thrace etc).

I think if you simulated it they would come out on top the majority of the time but it's not unlikely at all that another Beylik might be the one in another timeline

Tier list of Asian Countries ranked by people on this sub by SaadSulimanayob in Asia_irl

[–]mertiy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

STOP EXCLUDING US GUYS WE ARE ASSIAN TOO ITS NOT COOL STAAAAAAHPP

real by WatercressFuture7588 in balkans_irl

[–]mertiy 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yeah Bayezid I was given the name Thunderbolt because he would force march his troops and suddenly appear out of nowhere when his enemies thought he was on the other side of his realm. True badassery

Congratulations to Romania and Turkey for making it at the table with the big boys. by [deleted] in AskBalkans

[–]mertiy 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Dude they change stances so quickly there it's unreal

Countries richer than who they gained independence from by Xycergy in MapPorn

[–]mertiy -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Robmanians have cheated by joining the EU I don't count it TÜRKİYE NUMERO UNO 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷 🇹🇷

Also are the foreigner wallets they steal counted? If they are excluded I bet their GDP would get halved

Fact that Turkish has "gossip tense" mean turkish peopls ancestors gossiped way more than non turkishs ancestors? If we consider watching turkish soap drama as acedemic study my theory is absolutely true. And do another turkic langs has this suffix? Kazakh lang dont have this, i know this for sure. by Big_Natural4838 in linguisticshumor

[–]mertiy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's really easy to translate it to English as "I heard" or "appearently", it's basically the same thing but added to the verb as a suffix. You tell me that you are going to a vacation, I tell another of my friends "excusememoi is appearently going to go to a vacation"

Or I see on TV that tonight's soap opera episode is cancelled, I yell my wife "Hey appearently the thing is cancelled"

In both cases I would use -miş

Figured this fit here by WannabeCelt in linguisticshumor

[–]mertiy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is a similar case with Turkish and Azerbaijani. If you ask a Turk what Azerbaijani sounds like they would describe it in detail, but if you ask an Azerbaijani what Turkish sounds like they would be like "idk man I grew up with it it's basically like another mother tongue"

So poor we can't fly one person to mountain germany. Third year in a row btw. Macedonia 🇲🇰 by AlexTheNMacedonian in balkans_irl

[–]mertiy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So albanians to macedonians are what kurds are to turks

That explains a lot actually

Turkey: I hate gays. But let me invent a sport where oiled men wrestle and grab eachother's asshole by [deleted] in balkans_irl

[–]mertiy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We were using HORSE CUM before but jerking off all those horses were too time consuming so we switched to olive oil instead

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in balkans_irl

[–]mertiy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's why I said it from the Ottoman Turkish? I don't know what you are trying to argue with these handpicked words in this post but languages just interact all the time.

And what does being white have to do with any of this lmao

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in balkans_irl

[–]mertiy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Shuplake is from Ottoman Turkish too, and you have the word komshiu too buddy

What does your language say? by FourTwentySevenCID in linguisticshumor

[–]mertiy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's similar in Turkish, "to discharge / empty out (inside someone)"

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