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

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.


--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter