Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
From: | Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, June 20, 1999, 19:40 |
Well, since everyone else is voicing their natlang preferences, I thought=
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I'd chime in. I think one of the most beautiful languages is Cantonese. =
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It's so robust. Mandarin is a brittle breeze in comparison. Hungarian i=
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fun too. I love the stress pattern. Zulu is another language with=20
fascinating stress. Romanian is really nice except for the =EE. Portugue=
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really nice. Irish English is lovely. Swedish has nice tone patterns.
Languages I *don't* like the sound of -- Russian, Korean, Vietnamese,=20
Yiddish, German (though the Viennese dialect isn't too bad), New Yorkese,=
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Bostonian, Mandarin.
Adam Walker
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