Re: Thought and Language
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 17, 1998, 5:32 |
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Herman Miller wrote:
> The odd thing is, you'd think that guttural sounds would ruin any
> language's chances of sounding beautiful, but I think that Arabic is a
> beautiful-sounding language.
So do I. I'd always heard that Arabic was "harsh-sounding", but I have
a Lebanese neighbor, and I often hear Arabic spoken when I'm at his
house, and I think it sounds quite beautiful. I had been wondering if
it was just the Lebanese dialect, but maybe not.
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