Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 21, 1999, 4:04 |
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Adam Parrish said:
>> Oh, and English? A friend of mine from France put it best (okay, actually
>> it was her mother, but who wants to deal with all those annoying
>> genitives?): "English sounds like two cats making love in a paper sack."
>> Actually, she didn't say "making love."
>>
> Then surely she said "reciting poetry." But seriously, even
>though I'm a native speaker, I think English is a beautiful language.
>At least, "beautiful" in the Jackson Pollack sense. :)
A friend of a friend of mine, whose native language is Mexican Spanish,
once told me that before he learned (American) English, he thought it
sounded like dogs growling because of all the /w/ and /r/ sounds:
Worrah worrah worrah worrah!
Matt.
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