Re: Thought and Language

> > Daniel Baisden wrote:
> > > French is an artistic sounding language
> >
> > That's a rather subjective judgement.  To me, French doesn't sound at
> > all "artistic", it sounds like a horrible mess of unpleasant sounds.
>
> <personal opinion>
> No kidding! All those nasal vowels really get on my nerves sometimes.
> Also, the whole idea that German is ugly because it's gutteral and French
> is beautiful because it isn't -- that's just farcical.  What do call French
/r/,
> huh? Sheesh!
> </personal opinion>
I like the sound of French, though it's too weird relative to my more or less
Germanic phonetics for me to get any use out of it :-)
It is, at the very least, a much prettier language than English, IMO.
It's more "consistent" as well; it has a good deal more personality than
English does -- *too much* freedom in the phonology and a language loses its
character.  Right now I'm working on a project I have dubbed "Operation NEL"
(Non-ambiguating External Lenition; indicating grammatical alterations to
semantic words without ambiguating them, e.g. by turning them into something
else which might be a semantic word in its own right) and a number of other
revisions to Aroven's phonology, many of them restrictive rules, which I'm
very pleased with -- by channeling words into certain (especially aesthetic)
patterns the general sound of a language may be greatly enhanced.
Hm, this started off as a post about French... oh well

JJS :)