tube steak, Hungarian vowels

[Diana Ben-Aaron]

Another data point for tube steak as a double-entendre: In the Spike Lee
movie She's Gotta Have It (c. 1986), one of Nola's suitors invites her to
sample his tube steak.  It's in the montage of unsuitable pick-up lines.

If this helps advance the Hungarian discussion any further, the low back
vowels seem to be a, á, o and ó.  a is something like Swedish å (aw) but
more rounded, while á is more like the normal English 'father' a.  o is
o like 'oh' and ó is long o (would be written oo in Finnish).

As a native speaker of American English, I can't hear or produce much of a
difference between a and the more rounded o.  But a and à are easy to
distinguish.

Diana ben-Aaron
Department of English
University of Helsinki