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Is it necessary to insult?

In daily life, we can also use a lot of swear words. However, when it reaches a certain level of seriousness, especially in business life, even saying "Ian" can be an insult to the other person. Among us builders, I have seen people starting a fight in the field even for calling someone "my son".

They call it weird, they call it a freak. These are words I don't know and don't use in daily life.

On the other hand, some people call them ascetic, illet, zillet. They call it unworthy. I don't use these either. I don't even know what they mean.

They also call me spineless, they call me a turncoat. These are understandable words, but again words I don't like.

I looked it up in the dictionary. Freak means very strange, astonishingly ugly. It is an Arabic word. Etymologically it comes from the same root as the word miracle. Strange thing, bizarre.

I thought I'd look up "weirdness." It means something unusual, strangeness, strangeness. Again in Arabic. Garaba means to be strange, foreign. It's also used for the sun in the sense of setting. It went away, separated, set.

Well, since we are looking at the meanings of words, let's look at what it means to have no offspring. It means having no offspring, having no offspring, not being able to have children. Again in Arabic. In Turkish, it means infertile! So what is the meaning of such a word, actually I should say insult, what is the need to use such an insulting word in a normal conversation?

What about cibilliyetsiz? It means degenerate, spoiled milk. Cibilliyet is actually another Arabic word, it means creation, character, temperament. It means characterless, ill-tempered, devoid of character. What a ridiculous analogy.

Illet means a disease, that is, a disease-like habit, bad habit, addiction in a sense.

And "Zillet" means to be despised and humiliated. 

Oh, I'm really bored, this is also Arabic. When they say "Zillet alliance", I wonder if they mean "alliance of humiliation", what does it have to do with anything?

Millet-zillet, what a ridiculous analogy if they thought they could take advantage of the sound similarity! 

I would be embarrassed to say "zillet" instead of "nation." After all, the nation is sacred! 

They finally got me used to it, I said satire, I don't usually use that word, shame! "I would be ashamed to say zillet instead of nation" is a more accurate expression, I think.

Can you imagine, in the political arena, in certain levels of the state, these words are not missing from their mouths. 

When we were young, when we were children, we used to like to use swear words among our friends, some swear words were stuck in our mouths as if it was a good thing, it became a habit. I won't tell you what we said now, you already know. As I said, we didn't use it in a bad way, we used it as a habit. 

When we were in military school, we learned new swear words from our commanders that we didn't know. For some reason, swearing is considered normal in the military. Actually, I don't think it is normal!

Although swearing varies according to cultures, it exists in every culture.  

I remember the Russian nursery rhymes that the tea lady taught me when I first came to Russia. There are some standard phrases that Russians respond to in the form of nursery rhymes. Like our "Ali Veli forty nine fifty". But later, when I learned Russian, I realized that what the tea lady taught me was a little more sexual, a little more abusive. Russians also speak a lot of foul language. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that they swear a lot. And it doesn't matter whether they are men or women, they all like to swear.

I mean, we can also use a lot of foul language in daily life.

However, especially in business life, when it reaches a certain level of seriousness, even saying "Ian" can be an insult to the other person. I've seen some of us builders start a fight in the field even for calling someone "son". 

In other words, when things get serious, even a simple innocent word, even if it is a habit of mouth, can be perceived as an insult. 

Since the main job of us engineers is to get the work done correctly and on time by the employees in the field, we also need to pay attention to the way we address our employees. We may have employees from many different regions and each of them has different sensitivities.

Those who are in charge of the state are constantly in the public eye, they have to pay attention to their lifestyles. If they wave their hand differently while walking, let alone their style of address, there will be so many people who will misunderstand them.

That's why I don't think that words like freak, freak, weirdo, or the other side's words like illet, zillet, zillet, cibilliyiysız, zürriyiysız are appropriate for these public figures who claim to be in politics. 

I condemn this style of discourse!

If you are going to do this job, you have to speak properly. If you have not learned how to speak properly and politely all these years in schools, in your education years, in your family, take a grammar lesson first. But give up this nonsensical rhetoric as soon as possible. 

Don't even say "freak system" to criticize the current system. Instead, call it "not suitable for us" or, I don't know, a bad system. But don't call it a freak, don't call it weird.

If something is going to change in Turkey, I think this faulty style of address needs to change first. If we are to have a backbone, we need to fix our language first. This mutual insulting language needs to change urgently and politeness needs to be the primary style. 

The language of current politicians does not suit us at all! I am not singling out any of them in this criticism!

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.

Araştırmacı Yazar Deniz BURSALIOĞLU
Author Deniz BURSALIOĞLU
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  • 30.11.2022
  • Time : 4 min
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