Re: The beautifulest phonology
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 25, 2002, 15:17 |
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John Cowan
> Raymond Brown scripsit:
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> > To return to my cooking analogy, if I simply mixed together all the
> > 'beautifullest foods' or, if you prefer, the 'most aesthetically pleasing
> > to the taste buds' foods, I think the result would not be pleasant.
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> "Oysters are a fine thing, so are strawberries: but mashed together?"
> --I forget who
Not mashed together, but as one of those gallic banquets with 20 courses
containing every sort of edible creature under the sun (and under the
sea). IMO English comes closer to that ideal than other langs I know
of.
--And.