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"505 - morphine not found" (morphine500)
12/12/2013 at 11:29 • Filed to: Introductions

My name is György. Which would be George in English, so let's stick to that. A lot of you have already seen me, in videos, like this one:

Yes, that's my MR-2. I also own a Peugeot 505, in the process of being a bit renovated - new brakes, suspension and an LSD. All this in Hungary, and yes, even though Budapest is a city of 2.000.000 people, i have met both Péter and Máté. Also, the one and only Hardibird , when he was visting here. That's because i also work in car journalism, though that's only part-time nowadays. My main gig is doing TV, nothing really fancy though. Got three kids, in the process of growing up a car nut. I'm 35 as is my beautiful wife. Oh and fun fact: i finished university with a degree in History. Yeah i don't get why either.

While we are on the subject of introductions:

- I am all for manual, RWD cars

- i think wagon is the greatest form of the family hauler categroy

- i think a car goes with petrol. I do not like diesels at all, and laugh at people thinking just because the torque is high, it's good to drive or is a performance engine.

- however, HP isn't my thing: i see a lot of good in driving slow cars to their limits. It also freaks me out, when Americans call a car of 150-170hp underpowered, especially when under 1,2 ton.

- I like to hoon manual cars, BUT i can completely see the positives in automatics, and double-clutch systems. There are cars i would have with nothing else but one of those.

- So my view of thing is to evaluate each proposition on its own, and don't generalize. Only exception is VW: i hate everything that's VW.

DISCUSSION (8)

davedave1111 > 505 - morphine not found
12/12/2013 at 11:35

"My name is György. Which would be George in English, so let's stick to that."

I really hate it when people do that. Gyorgy isn't that hard to pronounce, and not all English speakers are complete idiots :)

The worst is when people Anglicise their names to me, but not to their compatriots I also know - so I meet this guy called George, and then some other time they're talking about a guy called Gyorgy and a) I think it's a different person and b) they think I'm too stupid to call him by his proper name...

Joey Quinn > 505 - morphine not found
12/12/2013 at 11:42

By VW do you mean VW or Volkswagen Auto Group

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > 505 - morphine not found
12/12/2013 at 11:43

"It also freaks me out, when Americans call a car of 150-170hp underpowered"

Tell me about it. You can go pretty bloody quickly in a car with 150bhp. If you want to experience underpowered, try a 59bhp Peugeot 106. And even then, it felt pokey enough so long as you didn't push it thanks to weighing the square root of bugger all.

Don't even get me started on the 1200kg BRZ being underpowered with 200bhp.

505 - morphine not found > davedave1111
12/12/2013 at 11:45

I'm sorry, i didn't mean to sound condescending. However, as far as i'm avare, the sound you should be emmiting when pronounthing the Hungarian "gy" isn't part of the English sounds as is therefore missing from your library. You know, because babies can emit all sounds, but when they learn their mothertongue, lose the sounds not needed for that.

Same reason only English (and some Spanish regions) can properly pronounce "th".

505 - morphine not found > Joey Quinn
12/12/2013 at 11:47

Well, if i'm honest, i'm ok with Lamborghini and Bentley, and love almost every Porsche as well as the R8, but other than that, it's VAG-hate.

Joey Quinn > 505 - morphine not found
12/12/2013 at 11:49

Any particular reason for the hate?

505 - morphine not found > Joey Quinn
12/12/2013 at 11:54

I just don't like the feel. Also the arrogance, but that could only be my projection.

davedave1111 > 505 - morphine not found
12/12/2013 at 12:58

Now that's even more patronising. It's not beyond the wit (or tongue) of man to learn to pronounce some new phonemes. It's also far from unlikely that English-speakers will have learnt another language (or at least heard it often) early enough to have no problem with the phonemes from it.

In this case, though, it's not even a sound that's particularly hard to acquire, for an English speak: it actually occurs in German, and we have some very similarly formed sounds of our own, so most English people will have no trouble with it at all once they try.

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