>From: Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>
>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:42:42 +0200
>
>On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Adam Walker wrote:
>
> > Romanian is really nice except for the =EE.
>
>What's wrong with =EE (except that it's hard to pronounce if you're not
>used to it)? Valdyan has it :-)
I don't know what's wrong with it. I just don't find it pleasant. I can=
=20
pronounce it without difficulty and have used it in several langs. But i=
t=20
usually ends up in words for unpleasant things (though it did end up in=20
melt=EEnt=FB - water - in Graavgaaln [but then "water" also means diahrre=
a]).
>
> > Portuguese is
> > really nice.
>
>Concedo. Except that when you're in Portugal for a few days (as a
>non-Portuguese) the nasalized vowels begin to hum in your head
>constantly.
>
I've never heard Porutguese Protuguese, but the Brazilian Portuguese I ge=
t=20
to hear almost daily is gorgeous.
> > Languages I *don't* like the sound of -- Russian
>
>I don't like Russian either; as for the Slavic languages, I much
>prefer Church Slavonic with as little Russian accent as possible
>(this morning in church I heard someone pronounce it with *my own*
>Dutch regional accent, worse than mine when I sing in it; quite an
>enlightening experience), Czech and Bulgarian/Macedonian (a
>distinction without a difference AFAIK). I like Polish even less than
>Russian; perhaps it's just the nasalized vowels that I don't like,
>which turn me off French as well.
Nasalised vowels probably do have something to do with it. Russian and=20
Polish also put together unpleasantly long strings of consonants.
Adam Walker
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