Posted on 10/26/2023 7:18:16 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
BTTT
I respectfully disagree. I can end the war in Ukraine almost overnight, we just need to Conscript every Blood Relative between the ages of 17-35 of ALL Members of Congress and the Entire Executive Branch, send them ALL to the Front Lines in Ukraine. Watch how fast the war ends.
He’s right. I do kinda like that Orban guy.
Do they understand that MAGA means Make America Great Again?
Only fools allow themselves to be brainwashed.
I like it.
I am liking Orban more every day.
I don’t know if even Trump can do what Orban is saying.
But it is the only thing that has not been tried.
So True
Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably the human beings in the world as well.
Indeed he has a record to back it up Biden screwed everything up from day one brain dead and proud of it.
Hungarians rock....I love their culture, history, and common sense.
And Hungary has a wall to keep "immigrants" (foreign invaders) out. I don't know if he proposed it, but I suspect he did.
Having lived in Budapest twice and learned the language, I agree wholeheartedly.
Imadok Magyarorszagot!
“I speak Hungarian....What’s your superpower?”
I agree
Learning the freaking language is my superpower. It is THE most difficult I’ve ever seen. It was at least as difficult as passing the bar exam or any of the financial engineering classes I had in business school.
Its not just the totally different vocab since its not an Indo-European language. Its that it has really strange rules of grammar that I’ve never heard of in any other language. If you’ll indulge me for a minute.
If you have a number that’s more than one, you still use the singular noun. For example szek = chair. szekek = chairs. But in a sentence you would say 6 szek. You would NOT say 6 szekek.
Weird. But some Asian languages do the same. So that’s not the weirdest. But wait! There’s MORE! Now the real fun is about to begin!
Every language has 6 pronouns. 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person. Singular and plural.
I We
You You (plural) also You (Formal) if the
language has formal and informal
He, She it They, Them, Theirs
In every language you conjugate the verbs based on the pronouns.
Hungarian has 12, not 6. 12??????????? you say. Yes. 12. You see, Hungarian also has definite and indefinite. WTF do you mean? you say.
Vasarolok egy autot. I buy a car. This is indefinite. Its A car. It could be any car. Thus the verb “Vasarolni” (to buy) conjugated in first person “-ok” = I. I buy.
Now watch this
Vasarolom az autot What just happened???? I buy THE car. Its definite. You know WHICH car it is exactly. So the conjugation of Vasarolni changes from “-ok” to “-om”.
12 conjugations for each verb. 12 conjugations in past tense, 12 in present tense, and 12 in future tense. Each one.
Oh, and you know how with just a few exceptions (child-children, man-men, woman-women, deer-deer, goose-geese) plurals in English can be made just by hanging an -s or -es on the end of the word? Its not that simple in Hungarian. The vowels in the ending have to agree with the vowels in the word.
Szek = szekek
Asztal = Asztalok See what just happened? This was “shallow” rather than “deep” so it got a different ending.
if the word ends in a vowel you just lucked out. You get to just hang a “k” on the end. Auto = Autok.
I can usually guess the correct ending but I definitely screw this up sometimes.
There’s more but this gives you a taste. Really really funky language. You can be good with languages and know a lot of them and be completely and utterly lost....as in not understanding one damn word....when you go to Hungary. Magyarul is a totally different language.
We can end it without Trump. Cut off the money
I spent a lot of time in Hungary. I can speak Italian, Spanish, a little French, and of course English.
Hungarian is a different animal. No similar language on Earth except possibly Finnish.
But I tried....one word at a time...
Luckily I brought my phrasebook.
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