Recent Hungarian meme: Gondolom, nem gyalog (jöttünk) = I guess we didn't come on foot.

Fidesz's (aka Orban's) chief money laundering poodle took a helicopter and private jet to a footy match. When asked how he got there, this was his response. Now he wants to copyright it 444.hu/2025/06/30/m...

The Hungarian for "arse-licker" is 'seggnyaló'. (segg = arse; nyal=lick, ó=that which, nyaló=licker).

The Hungarian for "yarnbombing / guerrilla, urban, graffiti knitting / knit, crochet graffiti / yarn art" is 'gerillakötés'.

[These are at Teleki László tér, in the park opposite the market.]

hu: index.hu/kultur/2012/...
en: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bo...

The Hungarian for "Plato" is 'Platón', whilst the "Republic" is 'Az állam'. The "allegory of the cave" is "barlanghasonlat'.

hu: mek.oszk.hu/03600/03629/...
Az állam: Platón (Fordította Jánosy István)
en: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?... Republic (514a–520a, Book VII)

The Hungarian for "metathesis" (the transposition of sounds or letters in a word) is 'metatézis'.

hu: hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metat%C...
en: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathe...

The Hungarian for "hobbyhorse" is 'vesszőparipa' (vessző=rod; paripa=steed), both in the literal meaning of the object used as a toy by kids and in the figurative meaning of someone's pet topic of conversation or obsession.

The Hungarian for "my current mood" is 'jelenlegi hangulatom' www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqTt... és www.erdosvirag.hu/van-egy-orsz...

The Hungarian for "passover" is 'pészah estéje'--though most people, if they know anything at all about this, would call it 'zsidó húsvét' which literally means "Jewish Easter" and literally make no sense on any level.

Let's face it the Old Testament (Ószövetség) is truly evil.

Donnabhán emlékére: legyen neked könnyű a föld

The Hungarian for "false or misleading advertising" is 'hamis vagy félrevezető reklám'

Reading Anna Karan(y)ina in Hungarian, i can't help noticing the frequency with which 'tüstént' is used as a synonym of 'azonnal', for "immediately", with the register of "forthwith".

Since the Hungarian for "xenoglossophobia"--the fear of / aversion to speaking foreign languages--is 'xenoglosszofóbia'. Then, the aversion to speaking one's native language would be "oikoglossophobia"= 'oikoglosszofóbia'.

[Just spent two blissfully English-free months]

Are you up for a challenge? Készen állsz egy kis kihívásra?

Don't dillydally / Ne habozz!

Try this / Ezt probáld ki: connectionsplus.io/game/22FZOr

The Hungarian for "builders' rubble" is 'sitt' from dialectic German 'Shiet' ultimately from the same root as Scheiße.

Which is funny since today it is the annual communal recycling day of unwanted household waste (lomtalanítás) and there is a lot of 'sitt' amongst the shit.

The Hungarian for "hiding place" is 'búvóhely' or 'rejtekhely'.

They are from the verbs 'bújik' and 'rejtőzik', both meaning "to hide"; 'hely' meaning "place".

Rather despondent and dispirited (csüggedt és elszontyolodott) by the state of X, trying alternatives—again.

az aktuális hangulatom—my current mood
az éppen aktuális hangulatom—my mood right now
mai hangulatom—today's mood
a jelenlegi hangulatom—my mood presently