tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post6880823292978116054..comments2024-02-14T14:47:58.061-08:00Comments on Word Salad: Foreign Exchange: Part 3, the Daughter We Never HadColeslawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-4360998582275277292019-04-17T07:32:51.268-07:002019-04-17T07:32:51.268-07:00Your website is really cool and this is a great in...Your website is really cool and this is a great inspiring article. <a href="https://nairabarter.com" rel="nofollow">abokifx mallam</a><br />Burhan Khatrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18358976020410808072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-67619720773698801802011-11-14T14:08:21.551-08:002011-11-14T14:08:21.551-08:00One thing I have been sorry to see in my travels i...One thing I have been sorry to see in my travels is how the US seems to be exporting our bad food habits to the rest of the world. I did notice that Hungarians look thinner on the average than people in the US. When we visited there the first time, the airline lost our luggage and I had to buy some clothes. It was hard to find any the right size. It was even worse in Thailand. Something I noticed about both countries is that more food seems to be cooked up fresh than in the US. There are also a lot of vegetarian options which I expected in Thailand but it surprised me in Hungary. I love Hungarian food. I have some cookbooks Anett gave us (in English) but the amounts are given in pounds instead of cups and I don't know how to convert them.Coleslawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-73362087431414901222011-11-13T01:17:03.198-08:002011-11-13T01:17:03.198-08:00In Hungarian, we have one pronoun for humans (ő) a...In Hungarian, we have one pronoun for humans (ő) and another pronoun for things (az). In Hungarian, if you want to specify that you are talking about a female, you can add the word "nő" (woman) to specify, and in some cases "úr" (man) for men, but the base word is still gender neutral. so, "tanár" (teacher), "tanárnő" (female teacher) "tanárúr" (male teacher). And doktor, doktornő, doktorúr for doctor. Of course, words like "anya" (mother) and "apa" (father) have gender assumed into them, but otherwise...gender isn't something that is important in Hungarian. You can talk at length about a person and until you mention their name the audience has no way of telling whether you're speaking of a man or a woman. It usually comes to light eventually, but it's not a required part of a sentence, not the way it is in English. <br /><br />Consequently, I've been talking my love for over two years now to various people. The people who know I'm a lesbian know that it's a woman. People I'm not out to, like my landlady, just assume it's a man and I don't have to do anything special linguistically to keep up the pretense. I've /even/ told my landlady that my partner is feminine, but of course she assumed I meant effeminate, which I knew she would -- the Hungarian word is the same either way. A woman who is feminine wears a lot of girly colours and dresses. A man who is feminine is gentle and refined. A woman who is masculine is a tomboy. A man who is masculine drinks a lot. So, stereotypes are there still, it's just not, or doesn't have to be...an insult to call a person the wrong gender word.<br /><br />--<br />I'm another person who gains weight when I visit the US. I honestly think it's something in the food, and my guess is high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar and food additives. Coca Cola here is made with sugar, not corn syrup, for example. Did you know that some of the additives put in the food at fast food companies contain chemicals that trick your body into thinking it's hungry, to make people consume more? In Australia, they're thinking of outlawing a lot of the chemicals that companies like McDonald's add to food. Hungarians eat a lot of foods that Americans think of as fattening, but Hungarians don't tend to be fat. Some are, of course, and generally Hungarians don't want to be stick-thin, which is seen as unhealthy. It helps that places like McDonald's are seen as fancy restaurants here -- they charge as much for a hamburger as they would in America, but people here earn a tiny fraction of what Americans earn. $5 for a meal is seen as exorbitant, so McDonald's is a special treat, a sometimes food, not an everyday food.Pthalohttp://pthalo.dreamwidth.orgnoreply@blogger.com