When did the word karı become pejorative, replaced by eş? When I took Turkish at UW-Madison back in the 90s we learned that was the word for wife, then I moved to Istanbul in 1998 and was corrected the first time I said it. My prof also taught us words like tayyare and talebe without bothering to tell us that we would only be able to communicate with our friends’ grandparents with that vocabulary.
When did the word karı become pejorative, replaced by eş? When I took Turkish at UW-Madison back in the 90s we learned that was the word for wife, then I moved to Istanbul in 1998 and was corrected the first time I said it. My prof also taught us words like tayyare and talebe without bothering to tell us that we would only be able to communicate with our friends’ grandparents with that vocabulary.
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