Things you should never say to a Hungarian

  • Are you a hungry Hungarian?
 This – and other terrible jokes of its cheesy genre – is probably the most irritating thing every Hungarian has ever heard. We can’t even understand it – it’s not even funny – well maybe it is a little bit funny…
  •  Bucharest instead of Budapest. 
 If you’ve accidentally said Hungary’s capital was BuCHaRest to a Hungarian they’ve probably wanted to murder someone. Of course they do sound awfully similar and, yes, they are located in the same part of the world, but we can assure you that these are two completely different cities. Just in case you missed the Eastern European geography lesson at school, Bucharest is in Romania.
  •  Mixing up the Hungarian and Italian flags. 
Both have red, white and green stripes so it’s easy to confuse, but one is horizontal (Hungary) and the other is vertical (Italy). Mixing them up or saying that Hungarians copied the Italians are big no-nos.
  • Megszentségteleníthetetlenségesked- éseitekért. 
This right here is the longest word in the Hungarian language, and while many are proud of its incredible size, asking a Hungarian to say it, or worse yet tell you what it means, will result in a death-stare. For the record it’s 44 characters long and apparently means "due to your repeatedly not being possible to be desecrated." As for how to pronounce it, that’s a whole other article, which we’ll probably never do.

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