I had been skipping this one because I couldn’t figure it out. Google translate kept calling the title “statistician”, and manually typing it into a translator was giving me the same thing. For some reason it thought for a little longer today and finally gave me a title that makes sense: “works as an extra”

As always, stay tuned here on [email protected] for a slow trickle out of Jucika comics, but if you want to find more, here’s a good post with a large collection that /u/[email protected] posted last year: https://piefed.social/post/1258520

**Also, check out some Jucika fan art! https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/2128207/the-best-of-jucika-fan-art-12-pieces-with-two-videos

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t speak Hungarian, but the Norwegian word for Extra is “statist”, as in someone who is part of a static set. I would think the Hungarian word has a similar meaning/origin, and that the lack of context threw the translator off.

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    Statiszta means the extras in a movie, yes that second translation is correct

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    “A woman never tells.”

    “But we’re paying you!”

    “A street worker never tells either.”

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    Asked a Hungarian speaking person. The correct translation is extra. Like for example a person on a film set that is in the scene in the background.

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    How do you go from “statitician” to “works as an extra”? Is this some Hungarian (assuming its Hungarian) idiom?

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      I have no idea, but it’s wild that the translator gives different answers based on absolutely no change in input. I’m literally just reloading it and watching the definition change.

      9/10 times it says “statistician”, but every so often it says “works as an extra”

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      Native Hungarian here, statiszta means extra at a shooting, statisztál is a less often uses slightly archaic derivative meaning “acts as a statiszta”.

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      in many european languages, the word “extra” (as in a background character) translates as “statist” or some variation thereof.