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To: nopardons; piasa
"I'm of Hungarian descent. Your joke isn't funny or even valid!"

So you don't think Hungarian spelling should appear even the least bit humorous to the average American eye, eh?

Sorry, but I can't help you with your problem of not having a sense of humor.

However, I see you have laid on the card table your hand of cherry-picked Hungarian names ---

          Gabor, Gorka, David, Artur, Bela, Julia, Jakob ....

Fine. I will meet your bid, up the ante with my own cherry-picked list, and call:

How about the eminent Count Csikszentkiraly et Krasznahorka?
      Or Frwssina or Leorijncz or Szilágyi or Császár?
      Or Zwzanna or Meggyesfalvi or Szabolcsi or Potÿncza?
      Or Izbugyai or Szíjgyártó or Jlonasszonnak from Sátoraljaújhely?

And oh yeah, it may not be a proper name, but it is nevertheless a Hungarian word:
          Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért
I dare you to say that rapidly, 10 times in a row.

I rest my case.

31 posted on 04/24/2019 9:03:25 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
LOL...you picked NON-USUAL names; I gave examples of a few usual ones.

The "sz" will probably throw any any non-Magyar speaker and unless you are taught how to say it as a baby - about 13, you'll never be able to.

And then you threw in one heck of long, non-name word ( your "joke" relied on names of people AND without any examples, the "joke" is in bad taste! ); German and Welsh have quite a few crazy, long, just about unpronounceable to the non-speaker of those languages too.

Mass. and N.H. have quite a few Welsh places names that someone, who knows/lives there. has to tell you how to pronounce, because the spellings are INSANE/worse than anything you posted. ;^)

I have a great sense of humor; your joke just wasn't really funny. Silly perhaps, confusing to those who have no idea what an Hungarian name looks or sounds like; but funny? Not really.

Forget knowing what an Hungarian or someone of Hungarian ancestry looks like, for the majority of Americans! Some might know a name here and there from old movies and/or T.V. shows ( Ilona Massey, Bela Lugosi, Vilma Banki, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ernie Kovacs, Mitzi Gaynor, Paul Lukas ), but they have seen many with Americanized or changed names, which I did not list.

The names, above, that I listed, wouldn't fit your "joke" at all. See? ;^)

32 posted on 04/24/2019 9:32:23 PM PDT by nopardons
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