Day By Day© by Chris Muir.Tuesday, October 25, 2005
If ever you travel to Turkey, you don't need to mind your P's and Q's. You need to mind your Q's and W's. After a Kurdish New Year celebration, a Turkish court fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on their posters. See, back in 1928, Turkey passed the Law on the Adoption and Application of Turkish letters, which changed the Turkish alphabet from an Arabic script to a modified Latin script, and banned using any but the Turkish alphabet on public signs of all kinds. The "new" Turkish alphabet has no Q's or W's. Each person was fined 100 new lira. And no, I don't know how much that is in dollars.
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You don't know how much 100 new lire in dollars as you don't know what is happening there.
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: 12:19 PM
Okay wiseguy. I didn't know because I've never been to Turkey and probably never will go to Turkey. But just for you I looked it up. 100 New Lira in Turkey is equal to 73.75 U.S. Dollars. Whatever else is going on there I don't know. But it's obviously important to you. So get a blog and write about it.
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