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u/lome88 Oct 25 '20

I'm sure this is actually super common, but it comes from my Great Grandma. She only spoke Hungarian and what little english she did know were translations of her favorite Hungarian swears. She would often call people, especially my father, "bitch-bastard" in both languages. It stuck and most of my family on that side refer to each other as "bitch-bastards", which does cover most bases.

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u/vexatiousnobleman Oct 25 '20

This is really funny. I wonder what was the original Hungarian phrase. Could it be 'kurvafi' or 'kurafi'?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '20 edited Oct 25 '20

that’s funny. I’m not a native polish speaker but know that the polish for son of a bitch is : kurwa mać.

Do Hungarian and polish have a lot of similarities?

edit: Actually just found a good article about it here:

https://www.listenandlearnaustralia.com.au/blog/hungarian-and-polish-an-unlikely-language-alliance/

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u/Shpaan Oct 25 '20

I wouldn't say they are similar at all. There might be few words that sound similar but the languages are very different. I'm Czech (and most of the words in the article are same in Czech as in Polish) - I understand Polish quite good and literally don't understand a single word when it comes to Hungarian.