Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
From: | Adam Parrish <myth@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 20:23 |
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.
Adam