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July 4

Nicholas II = shit? (Hungarian cacophone/pun)

Perusing Google translator (Portuguese > Hungarian), I've found this result, in Hungarian:

te rohadt, te szar, te szar!

The last two words means something like "you shit" or "you piece of shit" (directed towards a person) and is pronounced, by the Google voice, as tsar.

Did the Hungarian communists ever use this pun against Nicholas II of Russia, or Hungarians in general against, say, a drug tsar? Mdob (talk) 19:11, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(Not a Hungarian) Since the Hungarian word for Slavic emperors is cár, it's not impossible that it was used as a rhyming pun (however a and á aren't the same vowel in Hungarian). Szar and cár are however different enough words that they wouldn't be confused for one another. Szar is pronounced with an "s" sound, not a "ts"/"c" sound. 93.136.4.100 (talk) 20:20, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, User 93! Indeed, I was originally thinking how much the two words were/weren't similar. Thanks. Mdob (talk) 22:07, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Can you quote the original Portuguese text? 92.19.172.90 (talk) 11:20, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming you and User 93, above, are the same person. I don't remember exactly, but it was an quote from Brazilian hyper violent 2007 film Elite Squad, with Wagner Moura in the role of Captain Nascimento. In this scene he (Nascimento) is "bitch slapping" an University of Rio student who was smoking pot with druglords in the favela. The police comes in, wipes out everyone with multiple shots to the chest (except for the student) and Nascimento shouts to him:

Você tá vendo isso aqui?!

Are you seeing this?!

A culpa é sua!!

It's all your fault!!

É você que financia essa merda!!!

It's people like you that finance this shit!!!

Seu maconheiro, seu merda!!!

You stoner, you piece of shit!!!

Kicks him*

Seu merda!!!

You piece of shit!!!

This movie is very known and liked in Brazil (meme material, really) and I sometimes translate the curse dialogue to other languages in order to learn (Polish and Hungarian, most recently). Mdob (talk) 22:07, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]