#so hungarian is one of those languages that adds extra letters to words instead of some prepositions

[drlavenderpepper]

so like. i'm reading this book that was translated cause i couldn't find it in english at the bookstore, and i really want to complain about a nitpick i have about the translation itself but i can't do it properly cause it would be near incomprehensible in english

#i'm gonna do it anyway though #i'll try to explain #so hungarian is one of those languages that adds extra letters to words instead of some prepositions #what i mean is like. 'box' is 'doboz'. and 'in the box' is 'dobozban'. but the thing is with these thingies is that they're different for #words with low and high vowels. like my example was doboz*ban* but say. 'in the food' would be 'étel*ben*' #and another thing is for (usually foreign) words that end with a vowel you don't pronounce you write a dash between them #so 'with anne' becomes 'anne-nel'. okay so we've established that #my problem is that whoever translated the book got some of these wrong. like as an example they talk about people's magazine #and 'they wrote in people' is a thing that is said. and hungarianified that should be people-ban but the translator wrote it as people-ben #which just. sounds wrong. and also there's this person named bea. and 'with bea' was turned into 'beával' which is just NOOOOO #like that is consistent with the hungarian pronounciation of bea but girl. this is english. it should be 'bea-vel' #and these little things are driving me absolutely crazy. i cannot even begin to describe how much lol #like the book's great and the translation is pretty good as far as i can tell but this one thing is bothering me SO much #thankfully the other two books i got today are in untranslated english so. phew lmao #actually it's kinda funny cause i haven't read a translated book in ages and just. the way i could almost perfectly translate it back to #english cause i'm so familiar with actual english writing is really entertaining #oh btw i'm reading red white and royal blue! i'm only like a hundred pages in but it's really fun!! #this got long uhh. sorry nsfsgsg #lavender rambles