Turkish language has a gossip tense

Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by rdist on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:27PM (#41822259)

Can we get this applied to print, broadcast and cable news programs?

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by 082349872349872 on Saturday October 12, 2024 @06:47PM (#41823396)

> “L'histoire est une suite de mensonges sur lesquels on est d'accord.” —NB

("History is a bunch of lies upon which we all agree")

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by sedatk on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:36PM (#41822332)

Ironically, it's not used in journalistic contexts in Turkish. It would seem amateurish if it were, like they weren't doing their jobs properly.

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Re:Turkish language has a gossip tense by anticensor on Sunday October 13, 2024 @06:21AM (#41826737)

But it is in Azerbaijani (they also tend to makeshift the non finite verb suffix -ub as the perfective).

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