Happy Birthday in rot13

Kovacsics Robert

I wished my friend Michael happy birthday, since he enjoys the odd puzzle, I did it in rot13 (an old internet/usenet tradition, to hide spoilers).

The phrase “Happy Birthday Michael” is “Unccl Oveguqnl Zvpunry” in rot13, and granted it does look like it could be an Eastern European language, so he plugged it into Google Translate, which apparently1 did the following:

Unccl Oveguqnl Zvpunry translated back as Happy Birthday Uncle Michael, apparently from Hungarian

I thought how humorous, makes me think of Monty Python’s Hungarian Phrasebook sketch!

  1. I haven’t been able to verify it, it didn’t for me, but I’ll take it on trust. ↩︎