Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

rylxyc · 2.8M views · 2006-11-21 · 4:31

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Overview

The Monty Python sketch in which a man uses a mistranslated Hungarian phrasebook with absurd results, followed by the courtroom scene.

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Used purely as a joke reference to bad translation and phrasebooks.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2008–2023

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Stand-up & sketch comedy Language & linguistics

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buildsjets · 2023-10 · Joke / meme
That’s a old Monty Python sketch. It’s called “Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook”. My hovercraft is full of eels. [VIDEO]
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quchen · 2013-08 · Joke / meme
In case you were thinking the spelling mistakes come from a dirty phrasebook [1]: the German part of the website is just as awful. [1]: [VIDEO]
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stan_rogers · 2011-06 · Joke / meme
Oh, I'm sure there would be a few unfortunate "drop your panties, Sir William; I cannot wait until lunchtime" incidents, but with an automated Hungarian Phrasebook[1], we'll eventually learn to get by. More to the point, though, we have no reason to assume that dolphins, any more than, say, apes, have the ability to "chat" -- to communicate about things displaced from the here and now. It's worth a go, of course, but our expectations shouldn't be too high going in. [1] [VIDEO]
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