Not enough German in there for that, I'd say. I'd wager it's Hungarian. Contact MattHunX. He's Hungarian.

Mazille wrote:Not enough German in there for that, I'd say. I'd wager it's Hungarian. Contact MattHunX. He's Hungarian.

PM sent.

I am intrigued by the image, a very unusual rendering with mixed ability (self taught presumably) the helmet is quite strange if it is a American style one, perhaps the artist hadn't seen one close up. The subject's left eye is also unusual which makes me think this is actually a self portrait done from a small mirror with the subject leaning in which might explain the distortion with the helmet and the eye.

BTW, Gawdzilla, you should change the title of the post to anybody read Hungarian handwriting? in case MattHunX can't do it.

Mazille wrote:Not enough German in there for that, I'd say. I'd wager it's Hungarian. Contact MattHunX. He's Hungarian.

Definitely hungarian. Can't say what it reads though.

ConnyRaSk wrote:BTW, Gawdzilla, you should change the title of the post to anybody read Hungarian handwriting? in case MattHunX can't do it.

Tweaked.

kiore wrote:I am intrigued by the image, a very unusual rendering with mixed ability (self taught presumably) the helmet is quite strange if it is a American style one, perhaps the artist hadn't seen one close up. The subject's left eye is also unusual which makes me think this is actually a self portrait done from a small mirror with the subject leaning in which might explain the distortion with the helmet and the eye.

It matches Grandpa's pictures taken in uniform, but he had no skillz they know of.

Yeah "Hungarian not E. Europe" .. its middle but whatever .. Hungarian language is much different from other languages in the area and east of it - Slavic, and it is not Slavic language I am almost certain. We even call someone whos incomprehensible or stupid .. Hungarian ;)

tuco wrote:Yeah "Hungarian not E. Europe" .. its middle but whatever .. Hungarian language is much different from other languages in the area and east of it - Slavic, and it is not Slavic language I am almost certain. We even call someone whos incomprehensible or stupid .. Hungarian

Cultural reasons...
But yes, you're right. Hungarian is rather unique, really. The next related language is Finnish, which is why the group is called "Finno-Ugric".

It says:

"Sok szeretettel és hálával az Amerikai katonáknak!"

Translation: With much love and gratitude to the American soldiers.



Sorry, I misread it the first time. Now it's done.

Hey, I got "many", "and" and "American" right.

No no thats only Slovaks, they have issues ;) But seriously, go to Hungary and try to understand one word Hungarian like signs for example. Its like .. wtf? Say something we can find in many (European) languages: Restaurant - Vendéglő .. *shrugs*

MattHunX wrote:It says:

"Sok szeretettel és hálával az Amerikai katonáknak!"

Translation: With much love and gratitude to the American soldiers.



Sorry, I misread it the first time. Now it's done.

Thanks a million, amigo!

tuco wrote:No no thats only Slovaks, they have issues But seriously, go to Hungary and try to understand one word Hungarian like signs for example. Its like .. wtf? Say something we can find in many (European) languages: Restaurant - Vendéglő .. *shrugs*

There are some German and Slavic words in there. Mostly swearwords, funnily enough. But, yes, as I said, it has next to nothing to do with our Indo-European languages.

tuco wrote:No no thats only Slovaks, they have issues But seriously, go to Hungary and try to understand one word Hungarian like signs for example. Its like .. wtf? Say something we can find in many (European) languages: Restaurant - Vendéglő .. *shrugs*

LOL...weird isn't it? Actually, to break it down to you: vendéglő >>> vendég = guest + lő (suffix = "er" I think) = so it's guester

Gawdzilla wrote:

MattHunX wrote:It says:

"Sok szeretettel és hálával az Amerikai katonáknak!"

Translation: With much love and gratitude to the American soldiers.



Sorry, I misread it the first time. Now it's done.

Thanks a million, amigo!

No problem. What's this about anyway?

EDIT: Read PM, okay, I think I get it.

Weird and amusing, in a good way :) The stupid remark was not to insult (Hungarians) just to say out that we (people) do not hesitate to equal incomprehensible to us with stupid, which is pretty stupid ..

tuco wrote:Weird and amusing, in a good way The stupid remark was not to insult (Hungarians) just to say out that we (people) do not hesitate to equal incomprehensible to us with stupid, which is pretty stupid ..

Ooohhh, you can insult them all you like. I do the same.

tuco wrote:Weird and amusing, in a good way The stupid remark was not to insult (Hungarians) just to say out that we (people) do not hesitate to equal incomprehensible to us with stupid, which is pretty stupid ..

That has a loooooong history, though. The word "barbarian" comes to mind.

tuco wrote:Weird and amusing, in a good way The stupid remark was not to insult (Hungarians) just to say out that we (people) do not hesitate to equal incomprehensible to us with stupid, which is pretty stupid ..

Twenty years in the Navy, 72 countries overnight at least. I had to ride herd on young bucks who had never been out of their home state a few months earlier. One of the things I always told them was "Just because they can talk like, don't think they're dumb." A few learned that the hard way.