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I hate to be such a navel gazer, but could one of my Hungarian friends do a basic translation of this piece of a Hungarian article? Apparently I’m linked there and talked about, but since I can’t read Hungarian for all I know they’re insulting my mama or something.
Thanks!
Hídnévbörleszk: három halott Colbert és a mangalica
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2006. augusztus 24., csütörtök 16:15A NoFactZone.neten még az első forduló előtt megjelent egy oldal, amely szavazásra buzdít, és megkönnyíti azt a csak angolul tudóknak. A weblapot felfrissítették a második szavazási körre, hogy ne jelentsen problémát a regsiztrációval megnehezített voksolás. A magyar hídnévszavazás weblapját is lefordító, The latest mission for members of the Colbert Nation: The Stephen Colbert Bridge elnevezésű honlapnak látszik is a hatása: a Colbert elnevezés ismét élre ugrott a szavazáson.
UPDATE:
My navel gazing curiousity has been fulfulled:
AnotherHungarian says:
August 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pm Edit this comment
Hi,
Here is a very lose translation for you.Bridgecomedy continues: Three dead Colberts and a mangalica
A page had appeared on NoFactZone.net before the first round encouraging people to vote. It even had instructions in English and has been refreshed for the second round. So registration should not be a problem either. No wonder Colbert’s name has jumped to the top of the list once again.Index is the most popular news website among young Hungarians.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.hu
They have been following the Colbert thing since the beginning and as a result it’s now front page news in the more serious broadsheets as well. There have been editorials published about the kind of humour he’s doing and how not to take him seriously. Unfortunately, looking at the whole thing from this end of the world, there is not much difference between an arrogant American campaigning to rename french fries freedom fries and a guy doing jokes about the national hero of an obscure and small Eastern European nation. Borat is funny. But not in Kazakhstan (or wherever …)
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August 24th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Hi,
Here is a very lose translation for you.
Bridgecomedy continues: Three dead Colberts and a mangalica
A page had appeared on NoFactZone.net before the first round encouraging people to vote. It even had instructions in English and has been refreshed for the second round. So registration should not be a problem either. No wonder Colbert’s name has jumped to the top of the list once again.
Index is the most popular news website among young Hungarians.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.hu
They have been following the Colbert thing since the beginning and as a result it’s now front page news in the more serious broadsheets as well. There have been editorials published about the kind of humour he’s doing and how not to take him seriously. Unfortunately, looking at the whole thing from this end of the world, there is not much difference between an arrogant American campaigning to rename french fries freedom fries and a guy doing jokes about the national hero of an obscure and small Eastern European nation. Borat is funny. But not in Kazakhstan (or wherever …)
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August 24th, 2006 at 3:23 pm
Even more loosely, the rest of the article recaps the current tally, explains how “historycal” Colberts are dug up to name the bridge after because it can’t be named after anyone living, posts a dead link to the corresponding message board on colbertnation.com, reminds how the voting is only about recommending names to the official commitee, expresses gratefulnes over all the free publicity the country gets, and approves of Colberts apology about Zrinyi.
Anyway, Colbert and Jon Stewart had been practically unkown in Hungary before all this, as opposed to movie comics or for example Jay Leno, who even has a copycat show running complete with the segment about badly designed stuff:
http://www.showder.hu/
The reason is simple: we don’t get Commedy Central over here.
Too bad, that was the channel I watched most in the US…
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