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Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

rylxyc
Comedy
YouTube
Cited on HN 4 times, 2008–2023, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Used purely as a joke reference to bad translation and phrasebooks.

The Monty Python sketch in which a man uses a mistranslated Hungarian phrasebook with absurd results, followed by the courtroom scene.

4 jokes · Comedy

4 Hacker News comments

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@ObieJazz Dec 2008 Makes a joke
on HN thread Ask HN: Review my webapp
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This is the beginning of one of the essays: "I love icecream very much. Normally people wuld like to eat icecream in summer, few people were seen eating icecream in winter. But I will, and I found that is very excited to eat icecream in winter." There are grammatical errors and misspellings all over this. Here's the Monty Python sketch I'm referring to: [this video] Maybe the problem is that people are writing essays in the language they are learning instead of in their native language like it suggests on the home page. If that's that case, then this could be a good tool for essay writers to get feedback on their work. It needs to be clear, though, whether people should write essays in their native language or in the language they're learning. Maybe there could be different sections for each type of essay? Then you could also read essays in your native language written by students of the language and give them feedback, or you could read essays written by native speakers of the language you're learning.
@stan_rogers Jun 2011 Makes a joke
on HN thread Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphins
Oh, I'm sure there would be a few unfortunate "drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime" incidents, but with an automated Hungarian Phrasebook[1], we'll eventually learn to get by. More to the point, though, we have no reason to assume that dolphins, any more than, say, apes, have the ability to "chat" -- to communicate about things displaced from the here and now. It's worth a go, of course, but our expectations shouldn't be too high going in. [1] [this video]

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