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05-01-2005, 05:10 AM
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Canadian thread, American thread, well guess what; this is the official European thread!  European Tb'ers are a minority here, so, let's hear it, where are you from? Feel free to share interesting info on local luthiers. I'm always reading about all those high-end Us basses, but I'm pretty sure there are some well hidden european gems out there too!
I'm from Belgium, best beer in the world
I don't know if the UK TB'ers want to participate, feel free to join, but I don't know if you guys see the UK as a part of Europe or not. |
05-01-2005, 05:39 AM
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05-01-2005, 07:03 AM
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One of the worst-managed countries of Europe with overly hyppocritic and shameless politicians... does that count? 
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05-01-2005, 07:04 AM
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05-01-2005, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Frank Martin Hungary! / Magyarország
One of the worst-managed countries of Europe with overly hyppocritic and shameless politicians... does that count? | The only thing I know about Hungary is that Hungarian is a language that is extremely hard, because it has no relations with other European languages..could you confirm this? |
05-01-2005, 08:20 AM
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For the most part I think the younger generation do consider us to be a part of Europe.
However, opinions vary enormously, and as a result I don't know if we will be joining the single currency anytime soon.
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05-01-2005, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Frank Martin Hungary! / Magyarország
One of the worst-managed countries of Europe with overly hyppocritic and shameless politicians... does that count? | If countries with hypocritical and shameless politicians wouldn't count, you would probably have to dismiss ALL countries. 
I'm from Belgium myself, and like Vorago said, it's the country with the best beer in the world !
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05-01-2005, 09:02 AM
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05-01-2005, 09:06 AM
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05-01-2005, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Vorago The only thing I know about Hungary is that Hungarian is a language that is extremely hard, because it has no relations with other European languages..could you confirm this? | Yes, it is true. Many say it is the second hardest-to-learn language of the world - first is Chinese because of the pictograms.
It's a big melting pot (hun/scythian/hungarian ugor roots, with finnish, indo-european, turkish, slavish and german influence from the neighbours), but it still has a unique logic that is different from the logic of most other languages, that's what makes it hard. Like the plurals, construction of words regarding vowel harmony and vowel gradation; or even names, as they are written family name first.
As for other things to know about Hungary, we have the highest emigrated Nobel-prize winner/still living here Nobel-prize winner ratio  A bit odd.
Some inventions that I remember right now:
Tangent (from maths) - János Királyhegyi
Electric motors and generators - Ányos Jedlik, though Siemens patented it first
Safety matches - János Irinyi
the improved version of Faraday's transformator, which is still used today - Déry, Bláthy and Zippernovszky
Carburator - Csonka and (I forgot)
Ballpoint pens - Bíró
Electric locomotive systems - Kálmán Kandó
Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) - Albert Szentgyörgyi
The working principals of the computer - János Neumann
Nuclear power plant - designed by a group of emigrated Hungarian scientists
Hydrogen bomb - Leó Szilárd, also Ede Teller
The "Hot Line" between Washington and Moscow - Ede Teller
Holograms - Dénes Gábor
and more, but I don't remember them right now.
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05-01-2005, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by George Looney If countries with hypocritical and shameless politicians wouldn't count, you would probably have to dismiss ALL countries. | No, as Vorago said that Belgium has the best beer, we have these politicians, is it something to be proud of?
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05-01-2005, 10:49 AM
| | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | how does the vowel harmony work when building plurals? I study german and dutch, and languages interest me alot. |
05-01-2005, 12:17 PM
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05-01-2005, 12:27 PM
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05-01-2005, 12:34 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Brussels, Belgium & Luxembourg | | I guess i'm the only one who has to post a map of europe so you guys know where the hell this small but beautiful country is 
I'll have some very good news for the european ( and everyone else) TB'ers  So stay tuned... |
05-01-2005, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Vorago It's the smell of quality food | Ah..so THAT'S what haggis smells like.
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05-01-2005, 12:39 PM
| | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | Ah yes, Luxembourg; cheap cigarettes, cheap gas and by the time you've located Luxembourg on the map you are already in France
One of the few countries that is smaller then Belgium, so no offence |
05-01-2005, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Vorago Ah yes, Luxembourg; cheap cigarettes, cheap gas and by the time you've located Luxembourg on the map you are already in France | hehe... btw are you living in the french or dutch speaking part of belgium ? |
05-01-2005, 12:47 PM
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Geography isn't your strongest point ey?
Mais ma Français n'est pas bonne, j'ai eu une professeur horible pour francais, ce qui a resulté dans un degout de francais et l'incapabilité de parler français  |
05-01-2005, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Vorago Dutch speaking part, Antwerp, Flanders.
Geography isn't your strongest point ey? | ooppss...well normally it is. You guys don't like french right ? It seems that if you're speaking german or english they're friendlier. Blankenberge is nice... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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