RE: Pancakes filled with meat (Hortobágyi húsospalacsinta)

Post by **mahon** » 20 May 2005, o 13:35

Polish "sz" is like English "sh" but not this soft. More like German "sch".

I forgot we also have "Z with a dot over it" - I don't know a good equivalent for it. Maybe "zh"?

And your grammar makes sense.

Probably digging deeper in it would be more difficult though...
I doubt if anybody would like our grammar. Exceptions from exceptions from exceptions...

Many things can't be even put into any reasonable rules - just to be memorized or intuitionally felt.

endrem · Post by **endrem** » 20 May 2005, o 13:46

Or if you can describe everything in the grammar with rules, that set of rules will be so complex, that noone will be able to understand it, not even natives

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Having tried to teach my wife to Hungarian, I have to say, I myself can't tell the rules of Hungarian grammar, I stuck surprisingly early in the explanations

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German is also famous of all the exceptions compared to the basically strict rules it uses.

Post by **Skrit** » 20 May 2005, o 13:51

Bloemkool met gehaktballetjes en gekookte aardappelen...

(that's Dutch btw...)

Post by **mahon** » 20 May 2005, o 13:59

Dutch is one of the languages I can't:
- understand
- imagine how a word can sound

not to list any more "icants"

endrem · Post by **endrem** » 20 May 2005, o 14:04

Pofetjes is nice

Dutch is somewhat similar to german, sometimes, when I hear my dutch colleague talking, I seem to understand some parts...

Post by **Skrit** » 20 May 2005, o 14:06

Ah, Poffertjes. They are nice indeed! Lekker!

endrem · Post by **endrem** » 20 May 2005, o 14:07

Let me guess what Skrit wrote:

Meat balls and cauliflower in cooked apples

Post by **mahon** » 20 May 2005, o 14:13

maybe it's easier to understand when you hear it (knowing some German) than when you read it...

Post by **Skrit** » 20 May 2005, o 14:24

endrem wrote:Let me guess what Skrit wrote:

Meat balls and cauliflower in cooked apples

Babelfish huh?!

The meatball and the cauliflower were good but cooked apples? Who eats cooked apples unless it's in a apple-pie? The right word should be cooked potatoes.

None the less you get a cookie for effort!

Post by **mahon** » 20 May 2005, o 14:27

but now - knowing the meaning - I can see the similarities