Posted on 07/18/2022 9:29:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The former reality TV star was furious that the staff was not speaking Hungarian in a Budapest café. Merci did not excel in English in the 10th series of Való Világ, but she has reportedly made improvements since then. The young girl thinks that these days she would have no problem ordering in English but finds it unacceptable that she cannot use her mother tongue in one of Budapest’s busiest cafés
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This is how the problem starts.
I remember "English Only" was a political issue in the 1980s. Republican California U.S. Senator Hayakawa founded U.S. English in 1983.
In 1986, California passed Prop 63, amending the state Constitution to make English the official language of California. The state Supreme Court upheld it, but removed its teeth.
It ruled that though it was okay to make it the "official" language, it couldn't be enforced in any way. State documents, election ballots, classrooms, etc. could still be multilingual. Often, they had to be.
Today, "English Only" as a political issue is dead. Instead, we're told that English is "white supremacy" and we should celebrate the diversity of languages in the U.S. Which contributes to the fragmentation and destruction of America.
It’s not an Indo-European language. It’s only related to Finnizs.
Bodasconi Keknelui
Googled her pics. Not guilty.
Can’t remember whether it was Pats or Genos in south philly that
demanded people order in English- got a lot of attention
I just woke up after dreaming about Bela Lugo’s name & the first article I see here is this. Spooky...
English is the universal language, or as close as we have. When I was in Morocco, we were told that high school students there can choose a foreign language to learn, but that they are encouraged to learn English because “it is the language of business.” And there’s a reason that English is used worldwide as the official language for air traffic control communications (although some foreign air carrier crews butcher it so badly it’s charitable to call their utterances “English). Uniformity and consistency are crucial in aviation, a classic case where diversity is most certainly NOT “our strength.”
In Hungarian the l is pronounced like a y for starters.
This thread is worthless without pics!
Diveristy is NOT our Strength.
Worth repeating....
.........”Diveristy is NOT our Strength”........
I don’t blame her. People here would be pissed if they went to a busy cafe right in the middle of a major US city and they didn’t speak English.
You’re in Hungary. Ezert, kell Magyarul megtanulni. Azt mar csinaltam amikor Budapesten laktam.
Its not easy to learn. I promise you. :^)
When I was young we all learned French as a second language as an international language. Many people also learned the language of nearby ethnic groups. Not unusual to be trilingual in northeast
You didn’t find any linkages because Magyarul is a finno-ugraic language. Its only relative is Finnish and that relationship is distant. Its not even Indo-European. The only other I know of in Europe that is not Indo-European is Basque which is a stone age language that somehow survived.
Hungarian is tough to learn and has really crazy rules of grammar I’ve seen nowhere else and I speak German fluently and I really suck at French and Spanish but I’m fairly familiar with both so I have a basis for comparison.
That’s “J” that is pronounced as a “Y” in English, not “L” which is pronounced as “Y”.
The Hungarian alphabet has 43 letters instead of 26 like in English.
“O” and “U” have 4 each (eg, O, O with a slash over it, O with two slashes over it, O with two dots over it, etc)
Hungarian also has letter combinations where two letters in English make one in Hungarian. For example
cs = ch sound in English, sz = s sound in English, etc
Wawa markets put in order kiosks a couple decades ago. I’m 99% certain they did it so that the counter staff did not have to speak English or be good with customers. They probably save $5 and hour eliminating those skills. Next step is robots.
Would you be okay to have to order your meal in spainish here in the USA?
People all over the world learn English as a second language. It is the exception to the rule to go to a country where you CANNOT speak English.
Especially in tourist locations.
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