Aug 20, 2000 16:54
23 yrs ago
Turkish term
Cyprus
English, not translationese
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Turkish to English, German to English
çökmek
Turkish to English
Social Sciences
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
From a sociological article
Konut sahibi olmanın gecekonucuya sağladığı güvencenin önemi, literatürde çok işlenmiş bir konudur. Olgu, gecekondunun ekonomik mekanda çökmesini sağlama açısından güvenceli, sürekli bir iş sahibi olmak derecesinde önem taşımaktadır.
Here, I guess that 'çökmek' must have the meanıng of 'settle down', whıch would correspond to meanıng 8 of 'çökmek' in the 'Türk Dil Kurumu Türkçe Sözlük' : '(Tortu) Dibe inmek'. I have never seen 'çökmek' used in quite this way before. What do you think?
Konut sahibi olmanın gecekonucuya sağladığı güvencenin önemi, literatürde çok işlenmiş bir konudur. Olgu, gecekondunun ekonomik mekanda çökmesini sağlama açısından güvenceli, sürekli bir iş sahibi olmak derecesinde önem taşımaktadır.
Here, I guess that 'çökmek' must have the meanıng of 'settle down', whıch would correspond to meanıng 8 of 'çökmek' in the 'Türk Dil Kurumu Türkçe Sözlük' : '(Tortu) Dibe inmek'. I have never seen 'çökmek' used in quite this way before. What do you think?
Proposed translations
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| 0 | Meaningless |
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| 0 +1 | çökmek: oturmak/settle down |
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| 0 | to prevent from -> to stop and remove squatter settlement |
allingus (X)
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Change log
Jul 12, 2005 18:37: Özden Arıkan changed "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "(none)" to "Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc."
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Meaningless
This is probably a wrong translation. The writer must have used something originally written in another language.
Another possibility is that s/he is trying to show how educated he is, of course stupidly. There is a branch of Türk Dil Kurumu that makes up new words. They are trying to get rid of words imported from Arabic, Farsi, and other languages. In this process, they sometimes offer some meaningless meanings. The writer could be using one of their newest meaningless definitions.
Another possibility is that s/he is trying to show how educated he is, of course stupidly. There is a branch of Türk Dil Kurumu that makes up new words. They are trying to get rid of words imported from Arabic, Farsi, and other languages. In this process, they sometimes offer some meaningless meanings. The writer could be using one of their newest meaningless definitions.
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Comment: "Thanks, in fact I would like to award points to everyone who answered, but it isn't possible. So I have to chose the first person to answer. I think we are all agreed that the use of the word is nonsense in this context."
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çökmek: oturmak/settle down
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eger cevirme gibi bir zorunlulk yoksa (mesleki)bence böyle "kendine has " terminolojiye sahip bir makale okunmaya bile degmez bicmi icerigini belli etmis .
allah sabır versin
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allingus (X)
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to prevent from -> to stop and remove squatter settlement
This sentence is shortly trying to underline the important role that economical development will play on ---stopping & removing of squatter settlement---, but I agree that it sounds to be a bad translation of another original, and rest of the text should be full with such expression defects.
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