Comments on: More on Hungarians

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:03:04 +0000

abb1 needs to search for more facts about Chuck Norris on the internet – there’s lots of them of this sort!

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 21:19:59 +0000

The Chuck Norris vote idea got over 2000 votes on Digg, that might explain the popularity.

Dr. Minorka – ez jó, még sosem gondolkoztam el azon, hogy magyarul mi lenne a blog neve, ez tetszik.:-)

By: Dr. Minorka

Dr. Minorka — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:01:58 +0000

re: (3)
Azért magyarok is olvassák a Göcsörtös Fát…
(At least one regular Hungarian reader)

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:15:58 +0000

I think most of Norris’s legion of “fans” are being ironic. Most people who are fans of Chuck Norris facts probably aren’t actually fans of Chuck Norris.

By: abb1

abb1 — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:56:08 +0000

It’s just that I never thought of this guy as a super-star.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:45:48 +0000

I don't think Chuck Norris has any connection with Hungary, abb1, any more than Stephen Colbert does. I assume it's just people who are fans of this sort of thing.

By: cheem

cheem — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:09:27 +0000

A lot of the Chuck Norris flood came over from the World of Warcraft forums. Lots of bored kids, I guess.

By: abb1

abb1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:33:11 +0000

Wiki says no Hungarian grandfather and also that he is extremely popular. Yet he seems to be one of the worst actors in the world, at least as far as I am concerned. Go figure.

Well, better Chack Norris than Jean-Claude Van-Damme, I guess…

By: abb1

abb1 — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:38:36 +0000

Is it true about Chuck Norris? Why? Does he have a Hungarian grandfather or something?

By: Eszter

Eszter — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:27:03 +0000

Arthur, that’s a fair question, but for now part of the goal is to see whether the findings from that JCR study can be replicated, or not. They didn’t say much about their sampling methods despite appearing in a peer-reviewed academic journal so it would be hard to reproduce their methods.

By the way, I doubt there are even two or three native Hungarians who read this blog. So the idea is more about finding people through referrals, which then extends well beyond CT readership.

By: arthur

arthur — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:02:52 +0000

I wonder whether Hungarians who read English language academic web sites represent an appropriate sample for measuring speech patterns of native Hungarians. Crooked Timber and Languagelog readers undoubtedly use more polysyllabic words than “typical” English speakers.

By: KCinDC

KCinDC — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:17:23 +0000

Colbert seems to really be getting into attacking websites. Every few days now he sends his minions to overwhelm or manipulate some site: elephant entries on Wikipedia, kittenwar.com, Hungarian bridge voting. Where does it end?

Soon instead of talking about sites being slashdotted we’ll have to say they’re colbertied (pronounced col-buried).