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A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
by mnyary 5y ago
A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
- vmception 5y agoIts nice that you respect this person but can we retire the word polyglot? Saying it on behalf of someone else is slightly less worse than someone referring to themselves as one. I would like to propose just saying “well rounded”, or “multifaceted”. Its almost as bad as people that care about Mensa.
- allarm 5y agoMaybe if you are suggesting to retire a whole word out of the language you could at least provide a (valid) reason to do so? It's not really obvious and a bit surprising, honestly.
- kmt-lnh 5y agoThe blog author speaks around 15 languages competently and he reads in about 15 more. Here's a 2 hr long interview with him where he touches on this topic: https://azeletmegminden.hu/040-sajo-tamas-podcast/ https://azeletmegminden.hu/040-sajo-tamas-podcast/ (in hungarian)
- kelljust 5y ago"Polyglot" refers specifically to language though. I've always taken it as someone being fluent in > 3 languages, following biligual and trilingual. Based on your proposed alternatives, you're likely thinking "polymath".