10 days to go! Wish y’all the best!! I hear they’re still conducting interviews till the end of this week…so if you haven’t had one already, keep your hopes up!
@Soheils I had no idea that the Qajar dynasty was ethnically Turkish! Fascinating stuff. Nice picture of Avicenna by the way 
@bearcon which subjects? (cri)
@aharper98 THANK YOU
@eddie86 @simarikcocuk Merhaba and Selam! Not Turkish in blood, but Turk at heart 
I have been immersed in the culture, so I do consider myself somewhat Turkish
@karakoram @schroscat It’s really interesting because many words in Turkish can also be found in especially Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, and Urdu. That’s what made it easier for me to learn Turkish. I think it has a lot to do with the spread during the Islamic Civilization and sultans very useful language since even lots of Russians and Azeris understand Turkish.
@Sajidur4 Are you sure It is not the other way around? I can not say I have heard Turkish loanwords in Arabic, though admittedly I am not a native speaker of either language.
If that is true, it has much more to do with the Turkish conquests of India, Egypt and Syria, which led to the establishment of a turkish warrior elite in many of the Asian countries.
@karakoram yup, the Qajars, the Afshars, and the Khwarazmshahs were ethnically Turkish. In fact, The Persian-Azeri-Armenian-Kurdish-Byzantine Safavids were the closest Persians came to ruling themselves before the 20th century and after the fall of the Buyids.
It is also interesting that the first Safavid King, Ismail I, was descended from the famed Komnenos family of ERE.
BTW, I liked the Turks, their country and their culture a lot, though I could only visit Istanbul.
Come on North Indians, Pakistanis, Bengalis, Afghans, Iranians, Tajiks, Ossetes! Be more active. We, as a language sub group, are sorely and surprisingly outnumbered on this thread!
@soheils when I was studying Turkish, I felt like lots of pronouncements were similar.
Also, I am originally from Bangladesh!! Where are you from?
@Sajidur4
I am from Iran. Interestingly, my name sometimes makes people think I am from Bangladesh.
@karakoram
How did you recognize Avicenna :)?
So it’s confirmed the 10th at 5:00pm? 'Cause that removes a whole 86,400 seconds from my countdown clock!!
@Soheils hahah, that’s what I initially thought. That’s why I got so excited!
@Sajidur4 Actually, my full name is even more Bengali in nature. I have a two part name, and the combination (M… Soheil) is very common in your country, I am told. I was the first Iranian named that, and the Ministry of Census initially objected to my name, lol.
PEOPLE, PLEASE TRY TO ANSWER THIS…When you open the Harvard portal with your account, you see ‘Fee Waiver’ and an ‘Application fee waiver’. I can understand the green tick behind Application Fee Waiver but what does a green tick behind ‘Fee Waiver’ means?
@Soheils hahah, that’s hilarious. Actually, you are right! I’m a living example of the long name. My first name is Sajidur, and I still have a middle and last name xD
@Barcelona17 i think it’s possibly the Harvard Fee Waiver? Not sure though. I wouldn’t worry about it since your fees are already covered:)
@Barcelona17 I have a picture of a paper right next to Fee-Waiver. Not sure what that means.
Ok, I just called and asked. The first one signifies that you requested a waiver, the second one shows that they have have received documents about that.
Hey everyone, did anyone take the new ACT writing test ? If so , how did everyone do on it?
yeah me too Soheils. I am glad to hear that.
btw I am also applying to UIUC. The deadline is midnight CST on December 1. What does the midnight mean,…the midnight between November 30 and December 1 or the midnight between December 1 and December 2?
Please reply as early as possible as it is very urgent.
@aharper98 I took it twice - once in September, and another time in October. Got a 26 in Sept and a 35 in Oct.
^ Subscores for the first score were straight 9s and a 12/10/12/12 on the second one. Curve looks messed up tbh.
@Soheils Yes! Prior to Atatürk, the primary language of Turkey/ the Ottoman Empire was Osmanlıca; the alphabet is very similar to that of Arabic. In order to modernize the country after the fall of the Ottomans, Atatürk created the 29-letter alphabet to steer us into modern times. Many Osmanlı words are still used in modern Turkish today, however, the language as a whole is not applied within the country. Unless, of course, for historical circumstances.
@karakoram Linguistics is such a fascinating subject; it’s great to see how such vastly different languages originated from the same ancestor. Personally, I’d love to learn Laz, even though it’s spoken by an extremely small amount of people because it’s such a beautiful language; my grandparent’s neighbor is from Trabzon, so she knew how to speak Laz for the most part. Laz isn’t as prevalent where I’m from in Ordu, but the dialects of Laz are always around; my grandmother would say certain words differently–we called it her köy dialect–and oftentimes, the languages would mesh for certain idiomatic expressions. I prefer that “type” of Turkish to the proper Turkish. It’s a heck of a lot more fun to speak, plus some of those expressions are absolutely ridiculous and are great in conversation.