Hugs and Kisses

Apparently, some of the ex-pat douchebags that comment on Pestiside....sniff....sniff...miss me....I miss you fuckers too......but I am too busy doing productive stuff nowadays.

BTW where do I stand on the Gawker thing? Gawker hasn't been funny, well, since its inception. And, in general, I don't understand the fawning admiration for Nick Denton.

Douchebag is an eternal pejorative. Ex-pat douchebag is even better.

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FYI

Cigány ----> Roma ----> Kreol bőrű.

That is all.

PS Varangy = Gazhe.

impedes language learning

Swung by Red Eva S. Balogh's blog just now. Aside from her usual pro-commie screed, she is making errors a small child wouldn't make.

But I thought she was a Dean at Yale....and her command of English....just so good...so smart these lesbian commies....

Some people claim that dubbing films and television series in Hungary impedes language learning. However, research shows that using subtitles can actually encourage and facilitate it. According to Eurobarometer that is the case in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, countries with a very high percentage of people speaking foreign languages.

I posted this comment. We'll see if it appears.

You are missing the point and you are conflating the two. Dubbing and subtitling are completely different.

Dubbing is the replacing of the original audio dialogue of a film with a translated version in another language.

The alternative to dubbing is to broadcast the original audio version and have the translation as subtitles at the bottom of the screen.

Hungarians prefer to have their television shows/films dubbed. Subtitling would enhance their learning of foreign languages.

Pick any two

Amikor Isten megteremtette a nemzeteket, minden népnek két-két tulajdonságot adott. Sok lett a nép, elhúzódott a munka, a magyarokra késő este került sor. Amikor a Mindenható megteremtett bennünket, így szólt: - A magyaroknak az okosságot, meg a becsületet adom és azt, hogy a kommunistákra kell szavazniuk. - Elnézést Uram! - szólt ekkor Gábriel arkangyal - Ha jól számolom, a magyaroknak három tulajdonságot adtál. - Ejnye! - mondta az Úr - Ezt aztán jól elnéztem, de most már vissza nem vonhatom. Hát most mit csináljunk? Rövid tanakodás után úgy döntött az Úr, hogy a magyaroknak adott három tulajdonság közül egy emberre csak kettő lehet igaz, a harmadik nem, s maguknak kell választaniuk az alábbiak szerint: -Ha egy magyar okos, és a kommunistákra szavaz - mondá az Úr -, akkor nem lehet becsületes. -Ha becsületes és a kommunistákra szavaz, akkor nem lehet okos. -Ha pedig okos és becsületes, akkor nem szavazhat a kommunistákra.

the best English language blog on Hungary

Tünde says:

This site is the best English language blog on Hungary, please don't let it go, otherwise you leave information on Hungary in English to Balogh Éva and Pestiside.

Well, flattery won't get you anywhere. Okay. I lied. It will get you somewhere. I'll try to update once in a while.

your name in Hungarian means peach

I cannot believe Barack Obama has gone through his entire life not knowing the true meaning of his Hungarian name...

After the first question, Obama warned the Americans in the audience to sit quietly. "Americans, wait until we get back home and I'll do a town hall there, because I want to hear from my French and German and European friends."

He called on a young man for the fourth question, and while he did not identify where he was from, the man had a heavy German accent. His final question went to "that young woman in the red," another student from Heidelberg.

"I wanted to tell you that your name in Hungarian means peach," she said.

"Peach? Well, how 'bout that -- I did not know that," Obama said.

Noble rot

Call me a cynical bastard. But did AXA Millésimes/Disznókó buy an ad in Time Magazine? Not that I have anything against Disznókó -- although I do favor the traditional more oxidized Tokaji -- this mention in Time magazine just strikes me as a bit odd.

A growing interest in eastern European gastronomic culture, and the premium attached to anything produced by artisanal methods, have been very good news for Tokaj (or Tokay) — the enormously sweet, complex wine produced only in Hungary's northeastern Tokaji region. Made from individually picked grapes that have shriveled and botrytized — a oenological term for the "noble rot" mold infection that intensely concentrates the fruit's sugars — Tokaj suffered from cost-cutting production methods during Hungary's communist era, but fresh investment (some of it foreign) is rectifying the situation.

Tokaji, sheltered by the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, has a singularly balmy microclimate. Long, warm autumns combined with the humidity of the Bodrog and Tisza Rivers favor the development of noble rot — much as in Sauternes. Unsurprisingly, the French have a presence in the region. AXA Millésimes — the winemaking subsidiary of the AXA insurance company — is behind Disznókó, the largest and arguably the most forward-looking single-estate Tokaj producer. The label is pioneering a fresher, crisper, more elegantly structured and less oxidized style of Tokaj that ages better in the bottle. Aymeric de Gironde, international sales director of Disznókó, is confident that Tokaj has the potential to double its sales over the next decade.

BTW I love "cost-cutting production methods" during Hungary's communist era. How about Tokaj suffered from state-run cooperatives that had no idea on how to produce wine during Hungary's communist era.

Gypsies are subhuman savages

I love how ex-pat douchebaggy to the extreme the discussion regarding CEU and its faculty.

This was is a classic:

Msys:

What I find amusing is that Pestisde has no problem with hate speech on its website, yet it uses a comment from a CEU professor to wage war against CEU (if they are such believers in free speech, shouldn't they have just let the comment and the person be?) Clearly, this is nothing but a way to attarct more attention to the website. What bothers me though is that this little pop quiz game may turn into an isntrument of incirmination of CEU professors who have nothing to do with the whole thing. So I would like to appeal to the CEU community: please stop playing by pestiside rules, and stop the guessing game. I love the free speech debate, but please leave personalities out of it -- otherwise it just turns into an unethical witch-hunting!

Msys has not a clue about what the fuck they are commenting on. Erik makes a great point here:

Erik:

@anon600ad: You are reading too much into my "steering" of the conversation back to the question originally posed by the post. The truth (as Msys pointed out) is that I am engaged in a witch hunt, and just want to make sure that as we are having fun kicking ideas back and forth we don't forget to sniff out the witch.

But while Msys is correct about this, I don't think he/she is being honest in saying that witch hunts are by definition "unethical." If our CEU professor had written in saying "The Gárda is right - Gypsies are subhuman savages" I suspect Msys and others would be working overtime to figure out who this person was, and then to burn them at the stake, at least metaphorically.

By the way, I always have a little chuckle whenever someone from the academic left (pejoratively) calls something a "witch hunt" or "McCarthyism," given how no other corner of modern Western society follows the principals of Torquemada with such loving care.

Get the witch!

Too bad Erik is standing by his principles and biting the hand that feeds him: Douchebag know-nothing ex-pats.

Nevetséges

1. I love the fact that Demszky has no fuckin' clue about what he is talking about. Ironically, as he himself says, nevetséges.

2. Check out the moron actually painting the zebra -- he steps on the wet paint and then proceeds to track paint on the asphalt.