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devohoneybee at 08:25pm on 26/08/2011
devohoneybee at 08:25pm on 26/08/2011Last weekend my mother and sister came to visit. My mother, who is 84, profoundly deaf, and Hungarian, is also very funny.
I had told her the following joke:
Q: how do you know if you have Alzheimers?
A: If you can spell it, you don't have it.
Whereupon she promptly spelled it, perfectly. (Hungarian, learned English after she had hearing loss).
The next day she said, "You should change that joke to Albuuerque." Which is where I live. She explained, "When my friends ask me where you are, I answer, 'She lives in an unspellable place."
She then went on to spell the longest word in Hungarian, which, for those following along at home, is MEGSZENTSEGTELENITHETETLENSEGE
She said it means "for those who would try but fail to make you unsaintly."
I googled it, natch. Alternate translations included:
"because of your continuous pretending of being able not to be made unholy"
"something that cannot be committed sacrilege on"
and "for your constant mentioning of the fact that [a particular thing] is unprofanable."
Really, I'd love to know the CONTEXT in which this phrase rolls naturally off the tongue.
There's no actual point to this entry. *grin*
I had told her the following joke:
Q: how do you know if you have Alzheimers?
A: If you can spell it, you don't have it.
Whereupon she promptly spelled it, perfectly. (Hungarian, learned English after she had hearing loss).
The next day she said, "You should change that joke to Albuuerque." Which is where I live. She explained, "When my friends ask me where you are, I answer, 'She lives in an unspellable place."
She then went on to spell the longest word in Hungarian, which, for those following along at home, is MEGSZENTSEGTELENITHETETLENSEGE
She said it means "for those who would try but fail to make you unsaintly."
I googled it, natch. Alternate translations included:
"because of your continuous pretending of being able not to be made unholy"
"something that cannot be committed sacrilege on"
and "for your constant mentioning of the fact that [a particular thing] is unprofanable."
Really, I'd love to know the CONTEXT in which this phrase rolls naturally off the tongue.
There's no actual point to this entry. *grin*
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That is a terrific word. It (or its translation) ought to be the title of a fic. *g*