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#inktober2017 #Inktober"The weirdest field medic you'd ever meet"
"Igna was absolutely sure something was wrong with this woman, altough for a long time she couldn't catch what exactly. She dressed like a noble, she behaved more like a wench. She rode a griffon, and she sew wounds. All at once. She usually followed weird train of thoughts, had even weirder modus operandi and those unsettling big eyes. Basically everything about her was odd."
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Character by Atteo
Realm of Isaldi by me.
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I wouldn't want to get into an argument with her.
Fountain pen? What a beautiful phrase! (We call the '(re)fill pen'-s)
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It's "töltőtoll", right? 
What's curious is that Emphar, while her looks may be unsettling isn't that dangerous of a person. She rides a griffon, but she isn't a fighter and relies almost solely on her speed of movement, travelling across the battlefield to help griffon riders who were less lucky. She has a strong personality and may behave strangely in interaction with others, I guess it's a part of her legacy as she is, in fact, a halfblood shapeshifter. It took a while until Igna managed to put the pieces of the puzzle together and identify what species Emphar is (as a Wanderer Igna has an extensive knowledge of creatures and monsters of various kinds and even for her it was a riddle hard to solve. Werefoxes are really rare, and half-werefoxes even more). Emphar is one of two medics griffon riders have, and the only one who actually has a griffon and is capable of getting quickly to the wounded. Getting in Emphar's hands would be good for anyone who doesn't want to have ugly scars, as she is a master of sewing wounds, but the procedure usually is very unpleasant, as she doesn't know (or care) a bit about anaestethics.
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Exactly! And the ballpoint pen is called "golyóstoll".
You had Hungarian classes? Was it voluntary or mandatory?
I like the Polish phrase, it's so beautifully describing the essence of this invention. Wish I could use it for writing, as I love the flowing lines it creates, but as a left-handed I can't hold it right and I usually smudge the ink or hurt my hand. That's the reason I had to dump my PAX ball point pens too.
I'm intrigued by all these details you gave me.
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I can say they were, and still are obligatory, as I'm currently on a second year of Hungarian Philology on a university
Oh, that's too bad... I think I've seen some pen designed for left-handed users, but the smugding must be really hard to avoid
I promised myself to put all the details and pieces of a story together someday, but as for now the plot is still scrappy and incomplete. I'm rewriting pieces of it when I have some spare time and hopefully one day it'll be good enough to publish (probably here, or somewhere else on the Internet). For now, I share info on the characters mostly in descriptions and comments.
The Inktober made solely of character from Isaldi was a bit of a trick, as I neglected them lately and some of them needed a significant graphic redesign (e.g. Heiran). Perhaps I'll make drawings with all of the characters I planned to portray during a challenge, but didn't manage to finish their drawings in time. It'd be a good opportunity to get back to traditional media for a while.
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It's heartwarming that you are interested in the Hungarian language so much that you study it on Uni!
Do you find it hard?
Yes, I saw left-handed tools and pens, but honestly, I prefer using regular ones. I used right-handed scissor in my left hand, but I cut to the other direction (I look above my hand, not under it.) I have a left handed scissor, I simply can't stand it.
Inktober was a blast for me, I would've never drawn this much otherwise. I'm still planning to finish the propmts, to vent my ideas out.
I'm looking forward to read your story, so far it seems very interesting!
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At first I didn't know much about Hungarian language, but I was interested generally in Finno-Ugric languages. When I actually started to learn it I liked it very much 
I'd say that the first half of the year when students are struggling with phonetics and basic vocabulary is the hardest, later it gets much easier and Hungarian isn't as hard as people usually think it is.
Inktober was a reason of creation some of my favourite drawings and it makes me draw traditional pieces more regularly.
Thanks! It's nice to know someone's interested in it!
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Yes, I noticed it, but confusingly the letters for the sounds are reversed. When we write 's' you write 'sz' and vice versa. Once a Polish couple asked me on the Castle Hill when will the "Várbusz" arrive, with a beautiful sh on the end.
How phonetic Polish is? tI looks quite hard, from the outsider's view, but if it is conseqvential it can't be that hard.
When learning a new language it's always the beginning which is hard.
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Yes, it's both nations' way to confuse the whole Europe XD I think that to a foreigner (at least a non-slavic one) Polish can be more difficult than Hungarian, because while we have grammar and vocabulary more understandable for other indoeuropean language speakers, the dark side of Polish is a huge amount of exceptions and 'soft' vowels, which are often hard to pronounce by non-slavs (it's ś, ć, ź dź and ń, of which only ń resembles Spanish eñe or Hungarian ny, but is more compact).
Native Poles who begin to learn Hungarian often pronounce gy as dź, but it's incorrect. Dź sounds more like you'd try to combine Hungarian gy and a Polish s-like whizzling noise.
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I like the way you described the sounds, and I think I already heard that sound!
I'm familiar with the ñ sound. Did you know that in Catalá they wrote it like in Hungarian? For example: Catalunya. My ears cannot distuingish the difference.
Yeah, the slavic languages with all the difference types of s-sz-z-zs-c-cs (these are the Hungarian ones, sorry) make my head ache. I first run into this in Russian, where 'sh' and most of them are even marked with similar letters. My mother (and everybody in her generation) had to learn it.
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Oh, I haven't known the Catalán spelling! It's curious. In Poland Russian was also mandatory in shools before 89', but our generation learns it rather rarely.
I guess Polish is probably the only Slavic language that syngalises usage of unique sounds by different methods: some are written using two-or-three-letter spelling (like in sz, cz and dzi) and some as diacritics (like ś, ć, ą and ę). What I also noticed as hard in learning Ugro-finnic languages is distinguishing lenght of some of the vowels, like ö and ő or
u and ú. In Polish all the vowels have preety uniform lenght and sometimes my ears have a problem cathing the difference between a long and a short one.
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What makes matters worse is that a-á and e-é don't behave like all the other pairs do. á and é don't differ in lenght, only in pronunciation. It made me a little hard to pronounce the Italian accento grave.
And the lenght matters! Tör(ni) means (to) break, while tőr means dagger.
Török means 'I break (smth, currently)' and also 'Turkish', törők means 'breakers' while tőrök means daggers.
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A-á and e-é are definitely easier to differ, altough at the beginning I had a tendency to mistake a and o, because our o is way more open than a Hungarian one. Yes, the lenght matters and it was the hardest thing to capture while writing down what I heard. Getting to know that long vowels usually are used e.g. to mark word which means someone (or smth) that's doing something (like in olvasó, tanuló and törő which you mentioned) made things a little easier
It's a common joke that speaking Polish is a superpower and I think that speaking Hungarian should also have that status XD
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Yes, Hungarian becomes much easier when you uinderstand some rules!
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I read this, I just don't know what to answer. I'll leave this unchecked in my notification and I'll reply with something more in-depth later.
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