Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

>Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> wrote:
> >dunn patrick w wrote:
> >
> >> 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."
> >
> >W's French friend's mother's saying English's sound resembles
> >paper-sack's cats's f###ings is just sibilance-shyness, sorry.
> >(This is still on-topic because it says "le chat" is the subj.)
> >
>Dumas says (in The Whites & the Blues) that French is for talking to men,
>Italian is for talking to women, and German is for talking to horses.
>Personally, I talk to my cat in German, too.
>Sylvia Sotomayor
I used to talk to my cat in French. I think it warped her.
A German friend of mine once said that she thought English was a very
beautiful language, especially the great authors read aloud. (I think she
mentioned Hemingway, or maybe I imagined that.) I think German is absolutely
gorgeous when it's spoken softly; it's horribly grating when it's yelled.

Jennifer


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