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Nóra Veszprémi
@NVeszpremi
Hungarian art historian in the UK. Research fellow @CRAACE1918_39. 19th century, Austria-Hungary, museums, and now interwar Central Europe.
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Oct 18, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Part Two of our exploration of the formal and informal you in Hungarian: maga

No, this hasn’t got anything to do with Trump. “Maga” is a Hungarian pronoun. A form of formal you.

The less polite one.

1/n The previous thread – linked here – showed how formal forms of address can still reflect asymmetrical social relations in Hungarian.

One of these is the teacher–student relationship. As we have seen, teachers, in school and at university, ...

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Oct 17, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
This week in the fascinating world of the Hungarian language: informal and formal you.

I know I’ve said that Hungarian is actually simple. And it is.

Except for formal you. Aargh. The most exasperating issue in the Hungarian language.

1/n Be glad you’re not Hungarian teenagers learning to navigate this in real life. *That’s* a distressing situation to be in.

As a Twitter lesson, however, it might be an interesting topic. One that will require multiple threads…

But let’s start.

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