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BeepBeepBonsaiSheep said:
Started learning Hungarian 2 weeks ago for the hell of it
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Good luck with that. My family speaks Hungarian and I can understand a bit, but my tongue just doesn’t do those “ngy “ sounds. Really not like any other language.
 
dbonsaiw said:
Good luck with that. My family speaks Hungarian and I can understand a bit, but my tongue just doesn’t do those “ngy “ sounds. Really not like any other language.
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Jó napot! Awesome they can speak it!

I’ve found some interesting similarities. Like the word for “driver” is “sofőr” pronounced “show-fur”. Sounds just like “chauffeur”

Their word for “orange” is very similar to Spanish “naranja”
 
I've occasionally dabbled in Romanian, which is supposedly a romance language with Latin roots like Spanish or French.
So far I've not been able to tell 🤷
Not that it matters since I can't even get to grasp the sentence structure.
 
ShadyStump said:
I've occasionally dabbled in Romanian, which is supposedly a romance language with Latin roots like Spanish or French.
So far I've not been able to tell 🤷
Not that it matters since I can't even get to grasp the sentence structure.
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It’s a Latin based language with Slavic influences

There’s an interesting video of news casters speaking all the Romance languages and Romanian is the only one that’s “what the heck is that”

There’s also one for Germanic languages. I’m sure English is the odd one out for that one
 
Yeah, much like Flemish is romance, but so heavy on the Germanic influence you could hard guess.
I do think it's the Slavic structure and congugation that throws me off, though. I've heard that historically Romanian had more French influence, which I would be able to pick out easily, but that suffered under the Soviet russification of last century.

If you have links to those videos, I'm totally interested.

Just remembered that I saw something once that claimed that the Voynich Manuscript had been partially translated by Hungarian father/son team of literaries who thought they recognized it as similar to a now dead rural Hungarian dialect.
I should look into that again, see how it's going.
 
ShadyStump said:
Yeah, much like Flemish is romance, but so heavy on the Germanic influence you could hard guess.
I do think it's the Slavic structure and congugation that throws me off, though. I've heard that historically Romanian had more French influence, which I would be able to pick out easily, but that suffered under the Soviet russification of last century.

If you have links to those videos, I'm totally interested.

Just remembered that I saw something once that claimed that the Voynich Manuscript had been partially translated by Hungarian father/son team of literaries who thought they recognized it as similar to a now dead rural Hungarian dialect.
I should look into that again, see how it's going.
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Romance:

Germanic:
 
ShadyStump said:
Romanian
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annoying. My wife grew up in Romania, with a grandparent from Hungary. She pick up all the latin languages so easily, yet having German parents means she knows that language spectrum well. And well.. Yeah working in an international environment..

I hate it how I can work in Brazil for 5 years, she joins me once and speaks better Portuguese. Unfair.
 
leatherback said:
annoying. My wife grew up in Romania, with a grandparent from Hungary. She pick up all the latin languages so easily, yet having German parents means she knows that language spectrum well. And well.. Yeah working in an international environment..

I hate it how I can work in Brazil for 5 years, she joins me once and speaks better Portuguese. Unfair.
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I took 2 years of French in highschool, barely passed the class, then never used it until last winter when I worked a seasonal job doing customer service for a Canadian lingerie company.
I've already forgotten everything I remembered, but I remember one or two things I never learned.🤪
Mostly, Canadian French IS NOT French French. Very different sentence structure.

Had a similar issue with Arabic. My family spent a year living in Ryhad when I was about 9 years old. Picked up allot, but never had occasion to use it. Deployed back to the Middle East twice while I was in the army, but what I remembered after a decade didn't help much because there's a big difference in accent and dialect between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq, at least for my brain.
 
I am including the link for those who think context will help, but the important line is this:
Monologuing is not a victimless crime.

 
So, between that, the Trump trial, and really just politics as usual, can we finally all agree that the US government is full of corruption, and it's time for some REAL political changes?

Just sayin'.
 
ShadyStump said:
So, between that, the Trump trial, and really just politics as usual, can we finally all agree that the US government is full of corruption, and it's time for some REAL political changes?

Just sayin'.
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We need to make it slightly easier to pierce the corporate veil where there is intentional misconduct by a business entity, abolish sovereign immunity, (gradually) shift the tax burden from an income tax to a real property tax, and institute ranked choice voting in all forty-six states and all four commonwealths.
 
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Gabler said:
We need to make it slightly easier to pierce the corporate veil where there is intentional misconduct by a business entity, abolish sovereign immunity, (gradually) shift the tax burden from an income tax to a real property tax, and institute ranked choice voting in all forty-six states and all four commonwealths.
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Repeal the 12th amendment (back to winning the presidency by a plurality in stead of majority) and simultaneously outlaw running mates, I think you'd be surprised how quickly that makes a big difference. Giving the vice president some actual powers after that would act as a catalyst, and I don't think it's a terrible idea to assign the 3rd place winner as Speaker of the House. If there was ever a time for term limits on scouts that would be it as well. Virtually nothing at all could happen without a coalition government. Downsides for sure, but only one way to mitigate them: teamwork.

I lean more towards a federal sales tax. Property taxes leave the Treasury leaning on property owners, which would prompt policies encouraging growth of corporate property management; just like taxing the rich has forced them to prop up the rich.
When the Greens, Libertarians, and half the Republicans all agree, there must be some level of common sense to it.
 
ShadyStump said:
Repeal the 12th amendment (back to winning the presidency by a plurality in stead of majority) and simultaneously outlaw running mates, I think you'd be surprised how quickly that makes a big difference. Giving the vice president some actual powers after that would act as a catalyst, and I don't think it's a terrible idea to assign the 3rd place winner as Speaker of the House. If there was ever a time for term limits on scouts that would be it as well. Virtually nothing at all could happen without a coalition government. Downsides for sure, but only one way to mitigate them: teamwork.

I lean more towards a federal sales tax. Property taxes leave the Treasury leaning on property owners, which would prompt policies encouraging growth of corporate property management; just like taxing the rich has forced them to prop up the rich.
When the Greens, Libertarians, and half the Republicans all agree, there must be some level of common sense to it.
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The way I see it, we all have the right to the fruits of our own labor, but no one can take credit for creating the land itself. If you want exclusive use of the land, you should pay for it, but if you create wealth in the form of chattels, you should be entitled to keep it.

Are you familiar with the work of Henry George? I'm a fan of his idea of taxing the unimproved value of land.
 
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