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Yes our alphabet is absolute shit. S is sh, sz is s, zs is like s in pleasure. Of course english is much worse but hungarian is a strange combination of having a goofy alphabet and writing in general but it actually follows its own rules so its predictable and hungarians will always write the same thing in the same way. Other goofy things about the hungarian alphabet and writing:

• there are letters that are actually 2 or 3 letters combined like sz, cs, ty, dzs, etc
• even tho we have ty, ny, gy, ly; the traditional hungarian alphabet does not contain y(even tho we have some names with y in them but they come from other languages) so some old hungarian fonts only contain a small y and not the capital version Y
• yes we have a letter that is made up of three and in some cases due to grammar you can have a version that is 4 letters long. This is because we have long and short consonants. So cs becomes ccs and sz becomes ssz and in very very rare cases the dzs can become ddzs which is horrifying. But we of course have words which have a a doubled up version instead of a long version because they are compound words so instead of kulccsomó its kulcscsomó

Sean Connery: I don't get it?

This is a sign on the road to Budapesht near the border between Ukraine and Hungary. There's the weird insistence in Ukraine to do a one-to-one transliteration of Cyrillic to Latin without much thought, so Ш just becomes SH... Google Maps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YyzH7xx7gWNJCcqA6

The real test is Montreal.

I say Paris but here it sounds like Paris.

Germans when pronouncing the name of the Seine river:

„𝑍𝔢𝑦𝔫𝔢!“

Where does Hawai’i vs Hawaii fall on the scale?

It’s possible to take this too far, like mispronouncing “Beijing” as “bei-zhing” because it sounds more foreign and gives the impression of being educated and well-traveled.

Kinda opposite where I live because we speak a dialect (of German) where s gets turned into sh

Saying Ahmsterdahm instead of emsterdem

My German father, who lived and worked in Budapest for a long time, pronounced it wrong. I rarely have cause to use the name but when I do, I try to do it justice.

I just say Budapesht because I liked Castlevania.

The one that always makes me laugh is any time someone has Pablo Escobar without a Paisa accent. In the accent Pablo should have, the city he is from (Medellin) is pronounced Med-uh-jean, not Med-uh-yeen.

There are other words and phrases that you can tell when the actor isn’t colombian paisa but that’s the biggest.

Now do Nijmwegen

Saying yob instead of job

Saying isstree instead of history

Now I'm having flashbacks to how horribly every city was pronounced in that Dracula anime lol

At one point in time, I was told Budapest could be translated as "shit-stirrer" and that memory resurfaces occasionally.