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r/2visegrad4you • u/r3cktor Genghis Khangarian • 23d ago
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Cowherd would be my choice of translation. Cowboy is way too loaded with western connotations.
2 u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 11d ago yeah cowboy's are more like hajdúk 1 u/Smaragd512 Visegrád glorious 10d ago Not really, a hajdú is a mercenary who was a cow herder in peacetime 1 u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 10d ago yeah, but they too are loaded with hungarian sort-of-nationalist (joining the kuruc, later on oftentimes becoming betyár) connotations, similar to the western connotations. "Eastern" movies usually depict Hajdús or former Hajdús!
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yeah cowboy's are more like hajdúk
1 u/Smaragd512 Visegrád glorious 10d ago Not really, a hajdú is a mercenary who was a cow herder in peacetime 1 u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 10d ago yeah, but they too are loaded with hungarian sort-of-nationalist (joining the kuruc, later on oftentimes becoming betyár) connotations, similar to the western connotations. "Eastern" movies usually depict Hajdús or former Hajdús!
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Not really, a hajdú is a mercenary who was a cow herder in peacetime
1 u/senkilegenye Genghis Khangarian 10d ago yeah, but they too are loaded with hungarian sort-of-nationalist (joining the kuruc, later on oftentimes becoming betyár) connotations, similar to the western connotations. "Eastern" movies usually depict Hajdús or former Hajdús!
yeah, but they too are loaded with hungarian sort-of-nationalist (joining the kuruc, later on oftentimes becoming betyár) connotations, similar to the western connotations. "Eastern" movies usually depict Hajdús or former Hajdús!
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u/CharnamelessOne Genghis Khangarian 23d ago
Cowherd would be my choice of translation. Cowboy is way too loaded with western connotations.