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[raymanuva]

HOw difficult is to pronounce Halloumi by Turkish Cypriots? Greek Cypriots use turkish words in their vocabulary quiote often without changing actual pronounciation. Mostly profanity...but anyway, u get the idea

how about "Haloulim"... "Halalum"... alltho the word "Halalumopitta" would sound werid... so as "Helimopitta"

you know what? i found it complitely rediculus to fight over CHEESE issues... it's CHEESY

[zan]

and pyrpo...YOU DONT HAVE TO FOLLOW MY POSTS, make some of your own....but chasing me around seems to be food for your boring senseless life..... write something from your own instead of just merely critisising others, maybe we are all stupid and you are smart.....but give us a f*cking break! Note: My name is not Viewpoint, I will never give up!

God forbid that Pyro should have an original thought



By the awy Fanour Viewpoint has not given up. He is travelling for a week or so and will be back....without fail!

[Pyrpolizer]

and pyrpo...YOU DONT HAVE TO FOLLOW MY POSTS, make some of your own....but chasing me around seems to be food for your boring senseless life..... write something from your own instead of just merely critisising others, maybe we are all stupid and you are smart.....but give us a f*cking break! Note: My name is not Viewpoint, I will never give up!

God forbid that Pyro should have an original thought



By the awy Fanour Viewpoint has not given up. He is travelling for a week or so and will be back....without fail!

You mean like writting a farewell poem, or opening a thread for Freudian Zans? Or some stupid topics like those of fanouraki that can be knocked down with a single shot?

As for VP we are still looking forward for his/her meeting with you-if it ever occurs i.e.

[shahmaran]

Hellim doesn't exist in the Turkish language because hellim doesn't exist in Turkey, its a Cypriot cheese and I'm pretty sure that there are many mainland Turks who are not even aware of its existence because it is not produced there, you can find that horrible export stuff in expensive supermarkets but that's about it, and since TCs don't really have an education system that teaches "Cypriot Turkish" it is normal for it not to exist, kids use Turkish books in the TRNC, books that have been printed and approved by the Turkish Education Authority..

The word "halloumi" will never fit into Turkish because it is grammatically and phonetically incorrect, it will always be "hellim" and we have every right to the word, this reminds me of the smart ass Greeks who tried to patent Baklava, doesn't any of these genius Europeans ever wonder how they ended up acquiring all these Middle Eastern delicacies, if it wasn't for the Ottoman Empire?

They are NOT originally Greek, end of!

[the_snake_and_the_crane]

Arabs were in Cyprus way before the Turks Shamone.

Besides, the people who tried to 'patent' Baklava, I think tried it within the EU only. Which other country in the EU has a Baklava trade?. Nobody ever said that Cypriots invented it.

Lastly, I know many Turkish Cypriots who say 'Halloumi' - so whats your point??

[shahmaran]

Turkey sells plenty of it in the EU, so what we are just meant to call it something else all of a sudden? we call it Baklava you call it Baklauva or something, and you patent our name?! Every single ex-Ottoman country produces the stuff...

Now if i was a foreigner i would maybe take your Halloumi claim a little seriously, but in 26 years of my life i have never and i mean EVER met a Turk or a TC who has every called the cheese "halloumi", maybe you got shit leaking out of your ears that affects your hearing, my point is pretty clear i thought and it is still valid....

[sadik06]

the word ''halloumi'' is pure arabic and we have in morocco a company called halloumi, moreover ''hallouma'' is a female name in ancient morocco and it still exist. and there is a traditional song under the title ''halloumi''

as we know 25% of turkish language is arabic,, and it was ataturk who derived turkish from arabic to put an end to the otoman culture...

[karma]

the word ''halloumi'' is pure arabic and we have in morocco a company called halloumi, moreover ''hallouma'' is a female name in ancient morocco and it still exist. and there is a traditional song under the title ''halloumi''

as we know 25% of turkish language is arabic,, and it was ataturk who derived turkish from arabic to put an end to the otoman culture...

yes Halloumi is arabiq word but what Ataturk derived was not the lanuguage, only the symbols (letters, alphabet characters), the language has been always Turkish not Arabiq..and Thank God he did it

[shahmaran]

yes the word Halloumi is Arabic, but is the cheese Arabic?

Because i heard it just means "cheese" over there, not necessarily representing the particular type of cheese in question...

[sadik06]

i see that there are many arabic words in turkish language,, and turkish is not a language as liguists say for it is mix of many other languages and used just in turkey. turkish as ataturk made after arabic was widely used in turkey in the era of otomon empire...i am not defending arabic but just saying my view point..


and why thanks to god he did it ????????????????????????