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

At 5:20 pm -0400 17/9/00, Nik wrote:
>Robert Hailman wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Perhaps it's not the nasals that make it sound ugly to you?  I find the
>nasals of French the most obviously ugly part of its phonology,
Yet most varieties of American English surely have more nasalized vowels
than French & Polish put together!  Indeed, it is the American nasalization
that Brits seem to object most to when they complain about Merkan English
:)

Ray.

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A mind which thinks at its own expense
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