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• Turkish phrase of the whenever…

  kapı kolu (door handle, but literally it translates to arm of the door).

  I recently read Nicholas Kristoff's article, "Go West, Young People! And East!" where he talked about his one word language test for language learners: How do you say door knob? Generally, people who lived abroad did much better than those who simply studied a language in their native country.

  Since I've been living in Turkey for almost two years, I figured I had better learn this simple phrase.

  Here's the article if you're interested:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/go-west-young-people-and-east.html?_r=0

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