Hungarian Hypercorrection

in hungarian suffix -ban/ben indicates location, such házban (in house), while -ba/be indicates direction, such házba (in(to) house). speakers of regional dialects or rural speakers use latter, shorter forms both cases: házba vagyok (incorrect: m in(to) house). mistake perceived lower quality or uneducated speech. avoid perception, people make opposite mistake, using first form everywhere, such in incorrect sentence házban megyek (i go in house). effect can observed in public speeches of politicians, religious figures, etc.

a similar mistake affects old intransitive verbs, in old hungarian had distinct system of conjugation (the so-called ikes conjugation, referring -ik suffix in third-person singular). among others, system requires use of suffix -m instead of -k in first person (e.g. eszem instead of *eszek , eat ). conjugation preserved in parts, of rapidly fading out of use. however, due prescriptivist pressure, hungarian speakers incorrectly use -m suffixes on verbs ending in -ik , not old intransitive ones (e.g. *kapaszkodom instead of kapaszkodok , hold on ). -ik suffix mistakenly applied verbs not end in it, causing verb robban explode turn *robbanik.