Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
From: | dunn patrick w <tb0pwd1@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 21:18 |
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Adam Parrish wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, 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."
> >
>
> 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. :) But for truly
> pulchritudinous (heh) languages, you have to look at constructed ones.
> Call it cliche, but I still think the most aesthetically pleasing
> language out there is Quenya, with some other languages by fellow list
> members (i.e., Teonaht, whose sounds I fell in love with the first time
> I looked at them) following close behind.
Oh, well, if we're including conlangs, then I definitely vote for Teonaht.
Followed closely by Hatasoe, of course. :)
--Patrick