The book, Embers, by Sandor Marai, a now-dead Hungarian author, is beautiful. About male friendship, love and betrayal, life in Hungary, and the changes as the political situation shifts and the old empire starts to weaken.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I was studying Finnish (huh!?) in the University > of Tampere, Finland, a part of the curriculum(?) was a course > in Hungarian, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric languages. > > One curious feature of Hungarian is that in an intterrogative > sentence the stress is on the second last syllable of the > sentence, whether it would be "normally" stressed or not. > > The Hungarian born teacher told us having noticed that > a student either learns that feature right away, or they > never learn to apply it, when trying to speak Hungarian. > > Perhaps there's a similar kind of situation as to Transcendental > Meditation. One either grasps the effortlessness[1] (almost) > immediately, or never learns it completely, even if one might > understand it *intellectually*... > > [1]prayatna-shaithilya: "effort-relaxation" >
