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Re:Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance ... by int_19h on Monday November 24, 2025 @11:29PM (#46042342)
The "weird" part about Hungarian names and words for English speakers is that "y" is a modifier letter in most cases, not a sound in and of itself. So e.g. "Nagy" is pronounced closer to something like "Nahj".
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Re:Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance ... by perching_aix on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:14AM (#46043146)
They said:

> Except when it comes to names when it gets a bit random!

The letters "gy", "ty", and "ly" are not exclusive to names, nor are they significantly more common in names.

It's not that I disagree people would struggle with these, just that it's not unique to names, so it couldn't have been what they were referring to there.

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Re:Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance ... by int_19h on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:57AM (#46047825)
My implicit point was that this:

> The only weird ones I can think of are the ones that end in -y. For example, Görgey. They're meant to be -i endings.

is not actually surprising to an English speaker.

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