Feliz Cumpleanos, Daniel!

[Doctor Rock]

i mean really, the difference between portuguese and spanish is no different than that between say.... vietnamese and koreans. or hungarians and romanians for that matter.     not exactly apples and oranges...

Well, in fact, Portuguese and Spanish are much closer to each other than Vietnamese and Korean.  Vietnamese belongs to the Austro-Asiatic language group, whereas there's some debate regarding Korean: some think its a language isolate while a few consider it to be in the Altaic language family. Others believe it to be distantly related to Japanese-Ryukyuan.

As for Romanian and Hungarian... Well, Romanian is actually close to Portuguese and Spanish: they're Romance Languages, and they originated from Latin.  Hungarian, however, is a a Finno-Ugric language related to Finnish, Estonian and a number of other minority languages spoken in the Baltic states and northern European Russia eastward into central Siberia.

So basically, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian would be three varieties of orange, whereas vietnamese and korean would be papayas and mangoes.  Hungarian would be a kind of pepper. 

[bebopbalogna]

Hungarian would be a kind of pepper. 

actually, hungarian is a kind of goulash.   


in another case of not being sure if dan is murdering my joke on purpose, or sincerely speaking out in the name of accuracy, i feel obligated to point out that  i was not really referring to language, but simply stereotyping/being generally racist.   

[Mister Chaddy]

By the way... Feliz cumpleanos?! 

That's Spanish!  

I am perfectly aware that you are Portuguese.  And I am also perfectly aware that my greeting is in Spanish.  It was done on purpose, with no underlying malice aforethought.  It was supposed to a "fun" alternative to the English.  I apologize for any insult that might have been inferred from this.

Thanks for murdering my birthday fun time, Dan.  Happy birthday.

[Doctor Rock]

Thank you, Chad and Pat, for giving me the opportunity to indulge in one of my favourite hobbies! 

[bebopbalogna]

hey dan! for your birthday, i give you one my favorite records of the past year....Free Drugs  by Harlem

http://drop.io/xqrepv7#

[bebopbalogna]

somebody make sure that my "drop" worked... if so, i'll put the link in HIWPYS.   i dig this record more and more with every listen.   lotsa fun!

[Jeff]

My favorite story about Hungarian is from the first time I went to Transylvania. We were watching some 80s cop show dubbed into Hungarian from English. One of the characters was shown in a reaction shot, with mountains in the background and a plane flying by overhead. Cut back to the speaker, then to a shot of the listener, in front of the same backdrop, with the same plane flying overhead.

It had taken so long for the Hungarian speaker in the dubbed version to get out all of the syllables needed to say the same thing, that the editor had given them "extra" time by using the same reaction shot twice.

Hungarian is a motherfucker of a tough language.

[Moetown]

I love paprika.


I've been stuck on the first little piece (it's just 16 measures) on page 33 in my guitar book for over 2 weeks. I'm only working within the parameters of five strings on the 1st 3 frets, but this shit has gotten way challenging. I keep trying and trying, and though I've gotten steadily faster, I'm not able to keep up with the guy on the dvd yet. I'm so obsessive that I refuse to be defeated. It might take another 2 weeks, but I'm gonna learn to play this bitch. I might be stuck on page 33 til the end of May.

[bebopbalogna]

[Doctor Rock]

Everything I needed to know about the guy who drives that truck I learned it from reading his bumper sticker.

[Doctor Rock]

hey dan! for your birthday, i give you one my favorite records of the past year....Free Drugs  by Harlem

http://drop.io/xqrepv7#

Thanks Pat! 

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Everything I needed to know about the guy who drives that truck I learned it from reading his bumper sticker.

That's not a bumper sticker. It's a billboard.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Everything I ever needed to know about Christianity I learned from the Inquisition.

[Doctor Rock]

Everything I needed to know about the guy who drives that truck I learned it from reading his bumper sticker.

That's not a bumper sticker. It's a billboard.

Yeah, the man is so proud of being a bigot, he wants everyone to know it!   

[bebopbalogna]

y'all notice that the guy is in a handicapped parking spot?  my suspicion is that he's parking there illegally.  my other suspicion is that he suffers from crippledick.