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Hey Rebecca, you were using inshallah correctly. “Mashallah” means something totally different. Well, it does literally mean “whatever God wills” (as opposed to inshallah which literally implies you DO plan to, if only God wills it and doesn’t stop you), but the connotation of using “mashallah” in most Arab contexts (cannot speak for Turkey) is “how beautiful is that!” (I.e. Look at how God willed it to be beautiful – and it is said to protect from the “evil eye” even if ur not superstitious, u have to say it in case the other ppl are superstitious). But inshallah is often used exactly for the way you used it: to prevent further discussion. I do it sometimes, too.
Will look up your post on terms from different paradigms, but the general idea rings true. I can see the word “constructivism” in the title and i remember Dave Cormier had a hard time talking to the Physics folks at MIT who used the term to mean sthg totally different. It drove all of us non-physicists crazy coz se kept misunderstanding each other!