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My Hungarian friend has often complained about how poor English is in comparison to his native Hungarian as a language for swearing. From your example, I'd say
by rootbear 6y ago
My Hungarian friend has often complained about how poor English is in comparison to his native Hungarian as a language for swearing. From your example, I'd say Hungarian swearing is stylistically similar to Romanian.
He also told me about his favorite untranslatable Hungarian word, "bezzeg", which has to be handled on a case-by-case basis when translating into English.
- horsawlarway 6y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkb4TPI-Lo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZkb4TPI-Lo
- arpa 6y agoFluent, inventive and artful swearing is the highest mastery of foreign language to be achieved. If your friend thinks english or any other language lacks expletives or ways to combine them for maximum effect, I am sorry, but your friend knows fuck-all about cultures, languages, and people in general. It is even possible that his mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries (i'm of course, saying that in jest!)