When I was
reading 29th chapter, I noticed the word “delirious”. It inspired me
Turkish word “deli” which means crazy. Then I found out that also “delirious”
means crazy. I think it is a really interesting coincidence which probably doesn't occur due to a borrowing from a language to another one. Anyway, I
generally like to relate words with similar pronunciation and writing. What
especially gave me pleasure to relate the pronunciation of “delirious” and
“deliriyoruz” which means “We are getting crazy.” .
The
noun “deal” can be given as another example to similar pronunciations of two
different words. One can relate it with the Turkish word “değil” which means in
English “not”. I have experienced also a funny conversation about it before a
couple of days.
One of my
friends said that they played Monopoly Deal. I didn’t know the difference
between a normal Monopoly and Monopoly Deal. So I asked her:
“What is actually
different by Monopoly Deal?”
She said: “It
is actually not same as the normal one. There is a big different between them,
even. As I said, one can infer that also from its name: Monopoly Değil (Which
means in Turkish “It is not Monopoly.”)”
This joke was
a good one. (207 words)
nice work! i was in the same situtation with you about the word "delirious". i read the joke you heard and i think that's really clever stuff.
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