This prompted an intervention by one Edit Herczog, a ‘progressive’ MEP from Hungary who started off as a Hungarian Communist even when Hungarian Communism was in steep decline. Such was her fury at Nigel Farage’s remarks that she had a go at him in English, not Hungarian. The EP website helpfully gives us all various options for following MEPs and their pronouncements. Here is the relevant page with the links to individual speakers. You can either download the audio file for each intervention and listen to it, or watch it on video, or read a transcript. This is what she said in fact: Mr President, Mr Farage has said that those people they were elected last week are not those the traffic will stop to let them go, and this is why we elected them because we wanted to elect people who will make the traffic move for all European citizens to get a better life to themselves and this is what they will do. Mr Rompuy and Mr (sic) Cathy Ashton are four people (sic) and the four hundred eighty million European will know it soon. I think this is the stake, we have to stand for them we have to state, save their integrity, personal integrity and Mr Farage, I’d like to say something, Hungarian quotation for you, it’s good that you are here because if the monkey goes up to the tree it’s better seen how that is his popo (sic). Heartfelt no doubt and a valiant effort (not easy to say all that in Hungarian if you are not Hungarian?), but still amusingly inaccurate. The general idea at the end appears to be that as a monkey climbs a tree its butt becomes all the more visible. Anyway, the text transcript as recorded on the EP website has been obligingly ‘interpreted’ by someone from Herczoglish into something like real English:

This prompted an intervention by one Edit Herczog, a ‘progressive’ MEP from Hungary who started off as a Hungarian Communist even when Hungarian Communism was in steep decline. Such was her fury at Nigel Farage’s remarks that she had a go at him in English, not Hungarian. The EP website helpfully gives us all various options for following MEPs and their pronouncements. Here is the relevant page with the links to individual speakers. You can either download the audio file for each intervention and listen to it, or watch it on video, or read a transcript. This is what she said in fact: Mr President, Mr Farage has said that those people they were elected last week are not those the traffic will stop to let them go, and this is why we elected them because we wanted to elect people who will make the traffic move for all European citizens to get a better life to themselves and this is what they will do. Mr Rompuy and Mr (sic) Cathy Ashton are four people (sic) and the four hundred eighty million European will know it soon. I think this is the stake, we have to stand for them we have to state, save their integrity, personal integrity and Mr Farage, I’d like to say something, Hungarian quotation for you, it’s good that you are here because if the monkey goes up to the tree it’s better seen how that is his popo (sic). Heartfelt no doubt and a valiant effort (not easy to say all that in Hungarian if you are not Hungarian?), but still amusingly inaccurate. The general idea at the end appears to be that as a monkey climbs a tree its butt becomes all the more visible. Anyway, the text transcript as recorded on the EP website has been obligingly ‘interpreted’ by someone from Herczoglish into something like real English:

Dumping the fish toxin rotenone into the water is the agency’s latest attempt to stop the aggressive, destructive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes by way of Lake Michigan. The fish kill is expected to cost as much as $2 million and kill thousands of fish. It is designed to give the Army Corps of Engineers an Asian carp-free window of time to perform regular maintenance on the electric barrier the corps installed to stop the Asian carp from traveling toward the lake.

Hétfő reggel indult a Duna tévé reggeli műsora, a Hattól nyolcig. Apáti-Tóth Kata vendégei Mesterházy Attila, az MSZ frakcióvezetője és Szijjártó Péter, a Fidesz elnöki kabinetjének vezetője voltak, de műsorvezető nem bánt kesztyűs kézzel a vendégekkel: lapunk egy volt dolgozótól úgy tudja, hogy a műsor után hangos viták is voltak a székházban. Herczeg Dóra, a Duna Televízió szóvivője az [origo]-nak elmondta, hogy Apáti-Tóth Kata egy adás után lekerül a képernyőről. “Stílusa nem illeszkedett a Duna Televízió új reggeli műsora, a Hattól nyolcig profiljába, ez a műsor nem azért indult, hogy a vendég és a néző úgy kezdje a napját, hogy az ügyészségen érzi magát.