u/yushaleth

Continental Europeans sometimes use English in a particular way that sounds somewhat strange, but mostly understandable for a native English speak.

An example:

Native-like English: "These aren't the Middle Ages, nor some African dictatorship. What you demand isn't even present in the most hardcore prisons of Southeast Asia!"

Euro-English: "This isn't the Middle-Age, nor some African dictature. What you want isn't even there in the hardest prisons of Indochina!"

For me there were two:

1. The ending scene in "Walking with Dinosaurs" in which the two T. rex hatchlings are nuzzling their dead mother and then the asteroid strikes, blowing everything away. (sad cry)

2. The ending scene in "Walking with Cavemen" in which Paleolithic people are seen making tools, painting caves, and sitting around the fire and the narrator says "It is 20.000 years ago and our journey has come to an end. For if I was to take this baby girl and raise her as my daughter, she would grow up to be indistinguishable from any 21st century human". (happy cry)

This study, cited in the Wikipedia article on Synapsids hints that the Synapsid-style configuration might have been ancestral to Amniotes, with Synapsids keeping this configuration while Sauropsids evolved additional fenestrae, and "anapsids" being non-crown Amniotes.

I remember back in 90s Hungary, most people called that kind of music "Techno" and the term "Eurodance" was mostly unknown.

Also, common people (my family and me included) didn't even know that it was European music. We simply assumed it was American.

Mine was when one of them wrote that he has spent so much time alone and has been thinking so much that he has managed to become a "modern-day Ancient Greek philosopher", then of course wrote some very dumb piece of "philosophy" afterwards.

Two ones I can think of immediately in Hungarian: "Tepsi" (baking pan) borrowed into Hungarian from Ottoman Turkish, and coming originally from Chinese "疊子" (diézi) which was "dep tsiX" in Middle Chinese and originally meant a small dish or a plate.

A more modern borrowing is "tacepao" (large mural or poster, not as commonly used nowadays as back in the 80s and 90s) from Chinese "大字報" (dàzìbào) meaning Big-character poster, referring to those large Chinese propaganda posters prevalent under Mao's rule. For example an older Hungarian might call a very large advertising or political poster a "tacepao".

I think it is one of the things Hungary does really well. When I started feeling very down and depressed for no reason and started suspecting that my brain is wrong somehow, I visited a public nerve clinic (no appointment was needed), had a 20 minute discussion with a psychiatrist, got diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and Panic Disorder, got prescribed an SSRI, got the medicine from the pharmacy next to the clinic, (2 months' supply for the price of a bag of chips), went home, took the meds, 90 minutes later I started feeling hopeful for the first time in months, managed to laugh at something on TV, then the next day as I was waiting for the tram to go to school, I caught myself smiling like a maniac and chuckling at something, then as I got used to the SSRI I simply felt normal because now I had enough serotonin available between my synapses.

I also worked as a nursing assistant at a psych ward and was impressed with what I've seen there. Psychiatry is the most underfunded branch of Hungarian public health care, but the nurses working there were the nicest and most helpful nurses I've ever encountered in Hungary, were vocally pro-LGBT, (one of the nurses was even an openly gay man and the head nurse of the psych ward was himself a Major Depressive Disorder and Panic Disorder sufferer), and did everything they could for the patients.

The head nurse even told me that in his opinion, people who themselves have a psychiatric disorder and/or an unconventional sexuality make the best psych ward nurses because they tend to have more empathy for psychiatric patients, and that these kinds of people seem naturally drawn to working at a psych ward.