Talk:Miklós Horthy, Jr.

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This article and others by this author is chock full of mis-spellings of Hungarian names. I strongly suggest you be more careful of spelling. In Hungarian, diacritical marks are not optional. Changing a á to an a, for example, can alter the meaning of the word in question radically. A famous example is száros [sA:rOS] and szaros [saroS]. The "a with acute accent" is not a tonic accented "a" nor is it anything like the German umlaut. As with the Danish and Norwegian "Ø" it is considered a completely different letter. Indeed, in the early hungarian runic (q.v.) there were individual glyphs for each phoneme. They were separate letters then, and they are separate letters now. Incidentally, the ostensibly minor change of á to a in the above example changes the word from the adjective "dear" or "precious" to "shitty."

Also, it is irrelevant whether or not English spelling conventions apply. Spelling the name "Miklós" as "Miklos" is just as incorrect as spelling it "Mmiclowsh". Since the correct characters are available (last time I looked, they were at the bottom of every edit page in blue, including the recently-added "double accute accent, which is [almost] unique to Hungarian). Spelling Krisztóf (my middle name in Hungarian) as "Christof" is simply unacceptable.