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word: I couldn't help but remark how often the same has occurred to me. For some reason I remembered inhabitants were sorely disappointed that much of their literature seemed flat when Attaturk switched from the beautiful Aabic script to Latin alphabet


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word: I couldn't help but remark how often the same has occurred to me. For some reason I remembered inhabitants were sorely disappointed that much of their literature seemed flat when Attaturk switched from the beautiful Aabic script to Latin alphabet




You remembered that? You were in Turkey when that happened?

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word: I couldn't help but remark how often the same has occurred to me. For some reason I remembered inhabitants were sorely disappointed that much of their literature seemed flat when Attaturk switched from the beautiful Aabic script to Latin alphabet




Is this the OP, or did something get truncated on my screen?

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It did seem kind of out of the blue.

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