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reading the dispossessed and having some kind of mental breakdown or something

ok so one of my Hungarian faves has released this new song today and their songs are always very spiritual and philosophical

so I was listening to it and I almost exploded because of this lyrics (translation mine and wonky)

Nothing is turning you

You are the wheel

And you are turning yourself

well. guess who came to mind

I love it when I suddenly get a bunch of notes on my Earthsea posts

Like hello fellow tumblr tag searcher, seeking anyone else who's going feral over these people. Welcome. Glad you're here.

step 1. get everyone in the world to want to fuck me

step 2. vow of celibacy

also! I just needed to look this up as a Hungarian, because yes, while the word sántál makes sense to me, it just sounds old school, we use sántít more nowadays

and ofc I needed to look it up in a Hungarian dictionary and let me nerd out about this one for a bit (bear with my English and the possibly wonky translation of this text)

so the word I looked up was sánta (lame), the noun from sántál/sántít

so basically,, Hungarian got the word from an old Slavic word group, possibly before the 11th century, when the Slavic nasal a still existed (btw if anyone knows about this nasal a, feel free to yap about it, I'm interested)

originally it used to mean something like to walk slowly, haltingly and then in Hungarian the meaning changed to to limp

and then some Slavic languages borrowed it back from Hungarian, apparently Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also have it as šantati

oh wow, I just had a szófosás here (basically a word for yapping in Hungarian, it literally means word-diarrhea)

Random Slovak š-words etymology:

Šajn (as in "nemám šajnu") — from German "(Geld)schein", the Austro-Hungarian banknote.

Šampón — from English "shampoo", from Indian "čāmpo" (to press)

Šanca — from French "cheance" (accident, luck), from Latin "cadentia" (falling) — used first for a good result when throwing a die.

Šanovať — from German "schön" (pretty)

Šantiť — from Hungarian "sántál" (to limp)

Šarkan — from Hungarian "sárkány" (dragon, virago, vixen, Xanthippe), from Proto-Turkic "siāŕgan" (carp, dragon)

Šarlatán — from German "Scharlatan", from Italian "ciarlatano", a blend of "ciarlatore" (chatterer) and "cerretano" (hawker), the latter coming from the village of Cerreto di Spoleto, known for its tricksters.

Šašo — from "šach" due to their clothes' black-and-white chessboard pattern

Šelma — from Middle High German "schelme" (plague)

Šovinizmus — from N. Chauvin, an excessively patriotic First French Republic soldier famous from the play "La Cocarde Tricolore"

Štamgast — from German "Stamm" (trunk, tribe) + "Gast" (guest)

Šuhaj — from Hungarian "suhanc", from "suhancár" (Swiss) since the Swiss often used to serve abroad as guards, mostly young men, hence the Slovak meaning

I recommend József Attila fr! he is controversial but interesting, sometimes a bit too overused but summarizes an era well and has that edgelord vibe imo (and I think Ján Smrek did a lot of pretty good translations of his works)

AND PRESSBURG! I need to watch it finally - my sister kept talking about it and how there are some inaccuracies and just unrealistic cringe stuff, but it's good that it exists and talks about things like these

Nebudem ťa volať "bráško", Nebudem ťa volať "kamoš", Oboch už v živote mám, Tak mi s tým trochu pomôž Ako voláš niekoho, S kým zdieľaš ťarchu zrady, S kým padal si vo vojnách, S kým staval si tie hrady S kým vymenil sis' slová, No komu viac nerozumieš ? Bol si tu celý ten čas, Tak povedz mi: čo o nás vieš? Ezer év együtt, Hogy történhetett ez meg? Különböző szavak, De ugyanaz a természet Próbáljunk meg nem határokat Húzni egymás közé Ne nézzünk egymásra, Nézzünk együtt előre! Még mindig ugyanazt a folyót ünnepeljük, Még mindig te vagy az én igazi északom, Igyunk hát mindkettőnkre, Nőjön a boldogságunk, Lássuk egymást napról napra többet, És ne féljünk többé attól, Ami közös bennünk

ok guys what is the verdict on genly's name when pronounced by gethenians?

alveolar tap r or rhotic r? hard g or soft g? or something else?

for that matter is the syllabic stress like EStraven or esTRAven because i totally thought it was the second until i saw people make estrogen jokes

magyarországot már csak a wattpados, #itt-mindenki-meleg, oknélkülien angstos, Nemecsek él au pál utcai fiúk fanfictionök menthetik meg

I am infected by Ai's pure pleasure in our achievement. Looked at soberly it is as bad as ever, up here.

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