top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 70 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Who told you he was Hungarian?

He did.

Can you trust that, any more than anything else he said?

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (14 children)
  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    This is a joke about the twist ending of a movie.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Since there are so many joke responses: thr move is "The Usual Suspects".

    PS: Don't go looking into the director of this movie. He was mentioned by name in the "Open Secret" documentary.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Since there are so many joke responses: thr move is "The Usual Suspects".

    Great move. I should watch it again.

    PS: Don't go looking into the director of this movie. He was mentioned by name in the "Open Secret" documentary.

    closes Stremio; opens SmartTube

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I thought it was the Hungarian Job?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • [–] [S] 29 points 3 months ago (22 children)

    I challenge you to find even the most savant polyglot speaking a foreign language without a trace of an accent.

    Extra points for two languages with such different phonetics as Hungarian and English

  • source
  • hideshow 22 child comments
  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    English is doable IMO, there are so many accents already that you should be able to find one that suits you (except you must be able to say "r") if you just have to get rid of your accent.

    Now try swedish. Just impossible.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 14 child comments
  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Swedish is just speaking Norwegian using baby words in the tone of an upset child. Who calls their sandwiches butter goose, honestly.

    Try Danish when sober. That's nigh impossible.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It's Norwegian that's the funny language, in pronunciation anyways! Hoppi toppi tuudi! Can't imagine an angry Norwegian... Never thought about the butter goose though, norway says "sandwich"?! Like sand and a sorceress? Hmm not much better.

    Danish is excluded from all kind of competition because it's a language from hell, I'm totally with you there.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    you three.. tisk tisk* don't you see? this tribalism of differences is the real reason why the Catholics were able to divide and defeat the vikings. this is why we all need to just come together with English. and besides to my American ears you all sound just terrible

    spoiler(just kidding love you all)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Try Danish when sober. That's nigh impossible.

    Not even Danes can do it!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I think swedish is very easy if you just listen to it. You can pick accents there as well, just avoid the unhinged stuff like visby and youll have a pretty easy time. Everyone brings up the swedish prosody and pitch accent but its just a melody you memorize/practice for each word. The two hardest things for me were/are y and the "sj"(ɧ) thingy.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I don’t think it’s impossible to do, just impossible to do alone. If you’ve got enough time and a good dialect coach, you can totally get there (H>E at least, I’d suspect E>H is harder for many reasons)

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I mean kinda cheating but im bilingual but i still fail. I have an english accent when speaking hungarian and a hungarian accent when speaking english. Also words i dont use often come out in an irish accent cause i grew up there. Language is fluid in my head rather than something concrete. At this point im even mixing swedish words into it even tho i dont speak much of it.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Cunning linguist.

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Ummmm, whats the context here? Also as a bilingual hungarian-english speaker i have doubts about someone being able to learn english as an adult to the level of seeming like a complete native. Tho i still dont have context, was this spoken or written? If spoken then its impossible.

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] [S] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

    This is the movie Unusual Suspects, the whole movie happens during the interrogation to one of the suspects, who, on one of the great plot-twists of movie history, happens to be the mythical crime-lord they have been talking about the whole movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6CqiShbBgo

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm guessing, it's about this guy?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du%C5%A1ko_Popov

    Do not ask me why my brain remembers shit like that...

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    He was serbian. As the wiki page says, and his name indicates

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well, yeah, but it does also say that he was born in "Austria-Hungary (present-day Serbia)".

    I mean, OP did respond by now, so I guess, it isn't about that guy either way, but don't think my brain did too bad of a job. 🙃

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    I have long suspected that linguists were not people. Thank you for confirming that.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Why is the meme colorblind?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›