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Dennis Lindsey "scouting" in Europe

dalamon said:
No mistake!! Parents + older brother were born in Kosovo. Most people don't know wtf that country is though, so I identify by my language/culture when referring to my roots moreso than the actual geographic region (dad is from Deçan, mom is from Gjakovë).


PS: your advice is ingenious, & made me laugh. Albanians love the Turks btw (well, the ones I've met at least).

I'll be going to Europe this summer-- sadly, no time to check out Izmir/Istanbul but maybe one day!
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all i know is that this country was the the reason for the usa to bring democracy to ex-yugoslavia
 
Darkwing Duck said:
A continent has always been defined by convention, not by physical geography...India and Europe are in no way analogous.
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Yes by European convention. They kinda ruled the world for a while. Not all countries teach 7 continents some say there are 6. I am with them on this and if there are 7 then the seventh is Greenland.

They are too analogous. They both are part of the continent Eurasia. India sits on it's own continental plate that is pushing into Eurasia while Europe does not sit on its own plate. So yeah India has a better argument for being a continent than Europe does. Take that Messina.

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dalamon said:
No mistake!! Parents + older brother were born in Kosovo. Most people don't know wtf that country is though, so I identify by my language/culture when referring to my roots moreso than the actual geographic region (dad is from Deçan, mom is from Gjakovë).


PS: your advice is ingenious, & made me laugh. Albanians love the Turks btw (well, the ones I've met at least).

I'll be going to Europe this summer-- sadly, no time to check out Izmir/Istanbul but maybe one day!
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This reminds me. Did you ever get around to reading Fax from Sarajevo?
 
dalamon said:
No mistake!! Parents + older brother were born in Kosovo. Most people don't know wtf that country is though, so I identify by my language/culture when referring to my roots moreso than the actual geographic region (dad is from Deçan, mom is from Gjakovë).


PS: your advice is ingenious, & made me laugh. Albanians love the Turks btw (well, the ones I've met at least).

I'll be going to Europe this summer-- sadly, no time to check out Izmir/Istanbul but maybe one day!
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There are many people from the Balkans living in Turkey, especially in Aegian region, İzmir. They were resettled with "population exchange" after WWI. Maybe one of your ancestors lives in İzmir, who knows?
 
Core4 said:
Seriously, I'm sure Messina speaks English well enough. Most Euros can speak a few languages and English is usually one of them as it's often a required language in schools. And a bunch of them speak better English than people who were born in the U.S. At least that's been my experience from my travels.
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Or at the very least, they speak English better than Karl Malone do.

As an aside, listening to DL speak drives me crazy. He says 'you know' about every 5th word or so. It's almost as annoying as listening to my children use the word 'like' every 5th word or so.
 
dalamon said:
Problem is: I look turkish, so I wouldn't have any of that "oooh he must be a tourist" mojo going for me.
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lol as a matter of fact, that is one hundred percent true. be sure to alert me if you ever set foot in İzmir. illyasova I'm from Karşıyaka braw. Well at least for the last 18 years. Changed about 7-8 houses in my life so my soul also belongs to Bornova. Never have lived in Güzelyalı, or anywhere further from Alsancak. A bit of ignorant about your region tbh.

jimmy eat jazz said:
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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1st time heard that in a Warner Bros cartoon as a child. Stuck in my mind since.
 
akirac73 said:
I haven't been to that part of Europe (north) but in the southern/eastern part of Europe I found that what you're saying to be true as well. A year ago, I visited Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, France and Spain and had no problems communicating with the locals in all of those countries...EXCEPT for France. The area of France that I visited (Marseille) seemed like nobody could (or had any desire to) speak English. Fortunately for me I was able to use google translator on my smartphone.
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I almost spent the night in jail in Gap (at the foot of the French Alps) because I got a traffic ticket and the gendarme were so angry at me for not being able to speak fluent French. My experiences throughout the rest of Europe and throughout most of the world have been the same as akirac, though. There is almost always someone available, even in the remotest of locations, who can communicate fairly well in English.
 
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