Abstract
Hungarian is a forbidding but dramatic language. No amount of etymological ingenuity is going to help you identify a building that’s marked szinhaz as a theatre. And when I was invited to see Shakespeare’s “Darab”, I racked my brains in vain to guess which of the Bard’s plays might bear that title — it turned out all 38 do, because darab simply means “play”, or “piece”. Actually, the play on that occasion was Othello and the production I saw gave me insight into the sonar qualities of Hungarian whose many open vowels, rich and strong consonants and rather explosive rhythms deriving from the heavy stress that falls on the first syllable of every word — all seemed eminently suited to the elemental forces that erupt in that play and to dramatic speech generally.
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