I love how things you read in English here are obviously not written by someone who speaks English. I came across this paragraph in a Hungarian travel brochure the other day:
"Hungarians are a curious breed. Despite sitting at the very heart of Europe, they speak a language unlike that of any of the countries immediately around them. Some have suggested that Hungarians are descended from a race of aliens who landed here and chose this spot to settle. Others have argued ancestral links with Attila the Hun-hence the country's name."
First off, who refers to themselves as a "curious breed?" I have met plenty of Hungarians now, and I wouldn't say that they are any stranger than say...you or me. Actually, Hungarians seem to me more down to earth and pragmatic than most Europeans or even Americans.
The part that cracked me up the most was them suggesting that they "are descended from a race of aliens." Hmm...if that's so does that mean they're linked to Scientology? Weird indeed. I didn't know Tom Cruise was Hungarian!
The funny thing is the brochure does have a point about the language. It is unlike anything you've ever heard before (or read before). I don't want to disappoint friends and family back home, but don't expect me (or Ben) to be rattling off hungarian sentences when we move back.
Our goals right now for learning the language are simple: understanding/saying how to order/buy food, understanding/saying things that help us get around, and understanding/saying to our students when to be quiet or good (because we have a headache).
So far all we can say is hello, goodbye, yes, no, thank you, I'm a teacher, My name is..., I am American, I don't speak Hungarian, I speak a little Hungarian, the weather is nice today, and a few other token phrases. So all in all we still probably know more Spanish or French than Hungarian.
So until next time...goodbye, adios, au revoir, and viszontlatasra!
I knew it, hungarians are aliens.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to probe u
DeleteReally...Scientology???
ReplyDeleteOh that's nice to read that youre learning hungarian language
ReplyDeleteI would like to hear how do you speak it :)
I'm Hungarian , and I'm very sad about that alien/descended thing.
I've heard this most of my life, just go with it hahaha
DeleteYou stupid ass. From hun.
ReplyDeleteLOL i saw something on a funny site and he typed hungarians are and loads of stuff came up one of the things i got was asian and alien on the site the person said are we really that wierd
ReplyDeleteMy cousin did a report 4 school and did it on hungry, when we searched up extra information on the web we read that also and we all died laughing when it said that we're aliens
DeleteActually, the name Hungarian has very little to do with Attila, the Hun.
ReplyDeleteOn Ogur means ten tribes in a weirder languange than ours. I don't really know which one, but this was how Europe got to know about the new race.
As it travelled across Europe, it has changed:
Ungharese (it?)
Ungar (de)
And in France, they added their 'h' to the beginning of the word, which they do not pronounce, but write. The English language got this word like many others from France.
And this is how the word 'Hungary' was made.
P.S. Check the origins of the word ogre, and what it may refer to :)
if hugarians would be aliens, they would have left Earth so far...to many stupid ideas here :(
ReplyDeleteWe will
DeleteYes, we are leave at 2100
DeleteWait... wasn't it 2101? I thought that 2100 is too soon.
Deleteno, did u guys forget the plan? we'll leave in 2222
Deleteheyheyhey... Józsika told me we won't leave :o
DeleteDamn kids, where the were you all? Half the escape pod seats were empty at luanch? Are you still down there in that crater?
DeleteIf you are... well... you are fucked.
Oszt' elmosogatni ki fog? A románok?
Well mate,
ReplyDeleteyou have learnt the basics of getting by in Hungarian.
That's all you need. And if you can not learn an Ancient language like Hungarian (Magyar) so be it. We aliens really don't care. Our language is for us that's all...from prince to pauper it's all the same language. Unique concept in it's self.
Val.
AZ ANYÁTOK IDEGEN BAZDMEG A ROMÁN SZÜZMÁRIA BASZON TEHERBE TITEKET!
ReplyDeleteHa már meszéled a nyelvet,írni is tudjál.We re not aliens.@ssholes.
ReplyDelete@Anonymus (September 15, 2013 at 4:22 PM)
ReplyDelete@Szilvia Kókai
Istenem, ne legyetek már ennyire idióták, ez csak egy vicc, vagy már annyira büszkének tartjátok magatokat, hogy velünk "mindenható magyarokkal" már nem is lehet tréfálni? Szánalom.
@Dana and Ben
It's an interesting and funny article guys, don't mind the stupid comments. Hoping to see more from you two;)
Hungarians, you should be proud of this title.
DeleteI can see some envies in some responses and hate and lot's of cowardice, but not sure from who and from which nation, just wondering how you got here and why you waste your energy (actually not wasted, it's forging our soul, so thank you) instead of telling us the prime point that you're trying to prove.
Thanks for the post, Dana and Ben!
ps: truth proves itself... that's universal, it takes time.
ps1: life is not originated from Earth.
- a Nephilim
annunaki × homo erectus -> homo sapiens
Deleteannunaki × homo sapiens -> nephilim
but then both the few annunaki left on the planet and the first series of homo sapiens got absorbed into the masses of nephilim through interbreeding, thus resulting in the current homo sapiens sapiens, a.k.a. the caucasian man
mongoloids and jews were later genetic additions point-inserted into white strongholds by species other than the annunaki, while negroids and australian aboriginals (some say even chimpansees) were results of intentionally engineered regression
as for us magyars, as the story goes, we're said to be the remnants of a mixed priestly caste hailing from the sister civilizations of pre-pointinsertion Babylon and Egypt, but more direct (although intermediary) roots should be looked for in Persia and India, and later, as the exile went on, in the Scythian steppes
our legacy is not exclusive though, the few bits of the old religion and culture that survived the christian purge have very close similarities to norse and celtic mythology, again, whites
Tom Cruise is not Hungarian, you idiots.
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