Did you know that the real story of the phrase “to get into a mess”, which we use for situations we can’t get out of and which almost everyone can easily understand, is based on a place we didn’t quite anticipate?
Tongue; It is the most important communication tool that lives, changes and develops just like human beings. Words that we have not dropped from our language for years, change over time for various reasons and sit in our language as they change. “back to tangle” is an example that has changed over time.
Today, together with you, the origin of this idiom, where and how it was derived, whether it’s a racist statement and its change over time.
The origin of the “Tangle” goes back to the Ottoman Period.
Today, it is accepted as an idiom by the Turkish Language Association (TDK); The origin of the idiom “turning into a mess”, which is explained as “things get very confusing and difficult to resolve” and “the situation that seems right and beautiful at first but then turns out to be the opposite”, is “arabic hairIt was ”.
Sheets produced by the Arabs during the Ottoman Period and used for cooking, More aesthetic and magnificent than other sheets it seems. People who are fascinated by the magnificence of Arabian sheets think that when they cook meat on these sheets, the meat smells abnormally and that this smell is caused by the sheet in which the meat was cooked. Over time, this event became popular among the people as a tangle and evolved into today’s tangle.
Apart from the metal sheets produced by the Arabs, there is another rumor.
From the past in our society, people of African descent as Arabs There is a wrong habit of describing It is rumored that the braid (rasta) pattern in the hair of people of African origin in the Ottoman Period seemed very strange and complex to the public. Because of this, the people started to use the expression “to go back to the Arab hair” for inextricable and complicated situations, and this expression became an idiom over time and “to go back to the tangle”.
Tangle grass has nothing to do with the topic
Tangle Grass
In our country; especially in the Aegean Tangle herb, which grows by itself, is used in the treatment of many ailments, is a plant from the parsley and fennel family and is also known as wild fennel, has nothing to do with the idiom, which is the main subject of our content. It is estimated that because the branches of the tangle grass are dense and ivy, it is likened to rasta and that is why it is called tangle grass.
The phrase “to go back to a tangle” is a phrase that is so well established in our language that Erkin Koray In 1976, a song of the same name was performed and took its place among the unforgettable songs. Later, the same idiom became the subject of poems; Recently, we can come across movies with the same name.
It is considered a racist expression even though we are not aware of it.
Although we use the phrase “to go back to a tangle” according to the rumor of hair or hair, both expressions are used. among people of both Arab and African descent perceived as racist. For this reason, although it is a well-established idiom in our language, to turn into a mess; Albanian stubbornness is a racist expression as well as many other racist expressions that have settled into our language, such as a daylight, a drummer, staying French, a Karaman sheep, two donkeys, a Circassian, Moorish who found property, or an Arab if I’m lying. We wish that all these expressions, which are based on racial discrimination and humiliate a certain society, will be deleted from our language…
What about you”tangleWhat do you think about the phrase “?
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