Örökzöld magyar nyelvi átok
Evergreen Hungarian linguistic curse

Author(s): Miklós Kontra
Subject(s): Language acquisition
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: This paper is about an everlasting Hungarian language curse, namely that practically all Hungarians (with the exception of those professional linguists who study bilingualism) are victims to and spreaders of such fallacies as (a) bilingualism can cause a deranged mind, (b) foreign words make “pure Hungarian” a dirty language, and (c) professional linguists who regard word-borrowing as a natural linguistic phenomenon legitimize ruining the Hungarian nation. By re-publishing his 1997 paper on Hungarian Americans in Chicago, the author demonstrates that the borrowing phenomena in Hungarian American communities are the same as those found in Hungarian Slovak communities in today’s Southern Slovakia.

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