Re: Thought and Language
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 17, 1998, 3:38 |
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On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:56:56 -0600, Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>> 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>
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 is Portuguese, despite its nasal vowels. =
I
don't think French is either especially beautiful or especially =
unpleasant
in sound, though. Some languages are definitely more pleasant-sounding =
than
others, as I hear them, but I don't know what makes them that way. If I
did, I would probably have done Jarrda a bit differently. It's =
unfortunate
that one of my more successful language experiments so far is also one of
the least pleasant-sounding ones.