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Edit: Thank you everyone, these are all great and all the context you've provided is really helpful. This character swears like a lot so I can use these all through my story. You guys are amazing!

Hi all! I have this bit I want to use in a short fiction.

For the exclamation I'm looking for something like "Goodness me," or "Fuck me,"

The character is female, 40, born and raised in Hungary, but came to Australia to study and has been here for about 20 years now.

I'm trying to establish the story is set slightly in the future (2030) by referencing a Mad Men reboot that doesn't exist in reality:

"It’s been a bullshit day all I really want to do is watch TV on the phone in the tub.

Season Two of the Mad Men reboot is out and it might be 2030 but Don Draper is still an unsalvageable dickhead. [Exclamation] everyone is dressed so sharply, I wish I could manifest a guy that dresses like this without filling all the suit pockets with emotional baggage."

Thank you for any advice!

I'm writing a short story and I'm looking for Hungarian pet names that friends might call each other when they're especially fond of each each other but there's no romantic subtext. Maybe also stuff like "Babe" that you could call a romantic partner but also works for a friend.

The context is a Hungarian woman in her forties with a thirty year old Australian guy for a tenant/roommate, they don't have all that much in common but she's pleased with him because he's got the internet working and networked all the devices in the house to voice control. She also regards him as a bit of a kid or immature because he spends a lot of money on impulse buying stupid stuff online like a snake he doesn't know how to care for (and accidently hotboxes) and "authentic" high end timepieces. She's not maternal or clucky but she does feel proprietorial about him and likes to brag about him to others.

As a placeholder I'm using Puli because he has dreadlocks and because Puli ends in a cute "i" sound (to my ear) but I'm not Hungarian so I'm not sure if that works.

Also the Aussie guy's name is Declan, and I'm interested in if there's a natural way to shorten it or make it a cute nickname in Hungarian.

Thank you!

Edit: it's set in a slightly dystopian future, but only a few years away, 2029. It's also set in Australia where she's now lived for over a decade, and works in a pretty casual environment, and has picked up a few aussie habits like calling people dude and bro regardless of age and gender.

Hey I'm a writer. Not a good one I don't get published lol but I still like to be thorough and do research.

I'm writing a short story with a main character who is a Hungarian immigrant to Australia (I'm Australian). I want to avoid falling into traps and stereotypes.

It's set in the near future, main character Reka is 40s, divorced, came to Aus to get a degree and stayed to work in accounting/auditing, but she chucked it in eventually to help her friend start a transport company.

Is there anything that makes you roll your eyes when you see a Hungarian character in fiction, books TV or whatever? What should I avoid? Thank you!