Your butchered Hungarian (language, that is) is better than my total lack thereof.
I think I'm going to try "May demons not fly up your nose" into a conversation, see how many strange looks I get.

It'd be worth trying in English, even.

As I do, on a regular basis, actually. But then there are the looks and the necessary explanation of how we say "God bless you" when people sneeze because it was once thought that when you sneezed, your soul was flung from your nose like so much snottage and there was a brief second of time when demons could then scoot in and take over your corporeal self, which would be bad, right? And so, "May demons not fly up your nose," is what we actually mean, whether or not we realize it.
Though it's kind of sad that they assumed the sticky stuff flying everywhere from your nose during a sneeze was your soul. Maybe mostly phlegmatics?
Then, of course, sometimes it's more fun to just say it and let the looks happen. I get them all the time anyway. :)

Sometimes I will mutter "May God have mercy on your soul" instead of "Gesundheit". I mutter it too quietly, though, so it's usually missed. (Muttering loudly would probably be an oxymoron. Which word brings to mind both the 'Oxyclean' product, as sold on TV, and oxycontin, which is often stolen from pharmacies.)

I like the demon version, because it is more dramatic. You know those commercials for TNT where they ask 'What is drama?' Demons infiltrating your sinuses certainly counts.

it's probably good that it's generally missed... i'd say muttering "may God have mercy on your soul" could be construed as threatening. which, come to think of it, would make it that much more fun to say.

nevermind. *grin*

i'm older than you, i'll always be first. nyah. *grin* besides, when have i not been a language ostrich? by bringing genetics into it, you're already 1/2 way thuderless anyhow. why fight it? it's part of our charm.

you can have theatre. =D

Yes, but what you love about words and language is the science of it all. What I love about same is the history, the evolution, the wonder and depth of it all. Same love, different facets. Come on, I bonded with Tolkein over that! All the Inklings, really. I took Latin! I...I...I'm a writer!!! So---nyah, infinity!

Do you know how many different versions of "American" sign language there are? Can you say ice cream in Hungarian? How about "God bless you," or "Good ass to you", hmm?

I think I'll stop this now. with one last thingie...thuderless. hee.

Thanks for the gracious theatre bestowal. Since for that one, you're like, 27th in line for the throne. :)

I love Mike!

first to die?!? it's... it's wrong that i think that's so funny, isn't it? heh. i love my sister.

yeah, i hate word history, tolkein, and the inklings. *rolls eyes* but you invoked infinity, so i guess i've been had. *grin* i would, however, love for you to share how to wish someone "good ass" in ANY language, english excluded.

glad you liked thunderless. merry Christmas!

(monk: in spanish, i get "beer" and "head" mixed up. it's a bad scene.)

Having English only as a second language I am not entirely sure what wishing someone "good ass" entails, but still, an intuitive guess would be that in Danish it would be something like "God røv og god weekend". See, it's not that difficult...

Balinha, i don't think that saying 'bier' is as challenging as 'cervaza'. But if i'm ordering, i explain that i want it large - like an elefanche.

tchau

So.....it goes under the bay???

and that is why i like to keep people like you around. *wink*