Re: Opinions on English (was Re: basic vocab)

John Cowan wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > > I actually *don't* like French's
> > > *sound,* aesthetically.  All these people were going on about how
> > > romantic it sounded, and all I heard were these honking nasals.
> > > <apologetic look>  Polish and Russian, OTOH, sound quite romantic to me.
> >
> > The nasals don't sound romantic to me, either. Actually, I thing of
> > French as being a very, very ugly language, because whenever I hear it,
> > it's Quebec French, which is, shall we say, not the nicest of dialects.
> > I'm sure the French from France sounds a lot better.
> >
> > When I think of romantic languages, Polish & Russian are on the list for
> > me, too.
>
> What is this?!  Polish has even more nasal vowels than French.
Yeah, it does. But for some reason, the nasals in Polish don't bother,
whereas they do in French. Again, it's probably that pesky Quebec French
ruining the language for me.

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Robert