The blog begins!

I put a lot of thought into the name of this blog, seeing as how it would be my very first one and all, and came up with a variety of ‘B’ words to potentially follow the word ‘Budapest’, forming an alliteration of sorts.  I think alliterations are neat.  Not only do they roll off your tongue nicely but they help phrases and lists stick in our brains more successfully.  As it turns out, there is a plethora of wonderful ‘B’ words out there, which made choosing one for the title a bit difficult; and it had to be just one, multiple seemed a bit kitschy.  So in the end, I was able to settle on one only after making the compromise that the second and third runners up would receive notable mention. 

The very first one that struck my fancy was ‘Babeldom’.  Budapest Babeldom.  Sounds nice doesn’t it? Babeldom is a confused sound of voices, which is exactly what Hungarian sounds like to me.  Hungarian is unlike any language I’ve ever heard before in my life, which makes sense seeing as how it is unlike any other language in the world, besides Finnish, and even that quite distantly.  The other word I considered was ‘Blague’ which was funny to me because it sounds like Blog, which of course is what this is, but it actually means pretentious nonsense, which I also thought was just so fitting seeing as how I’ll mostly be writing down my random thoughts and observations on the bionomics of Budapest, the different experiences I have and situations I find myself in, which is most likely to be mostly nonsense.  To assume that anyone would be interested in reading my nonsense seems a bit pretentious to me, hence the perfectly suited word blague for the title of my blog.  “However,” I reasoned to myself, “I enjoy reading other people’s blogs, perhaps there are a select few who might enjoy reading mine as well?”  So to those select few interested in reading my nonsense about organisms called people interacting in their environment called Budapest, welcome to Budapest Bionomics!