Re: CHAT: Lg prefs (was: Re: Blandness)

Barry Garcia wrote:

>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>>I've never liked the sound of the (modern) Romance languages. But there
>>may be some bias against Spanish. Not against Spanish speaking people. But
>>In my high school we had a choice of Spanish, German, or French. 90% of
>>the people took Spanish. Consequently, since I didn't like 90% of the
>>people in my high school I tried to take anything else (which turnrd out
>>to be German after a spectacularly unsuccesful initial effort at French).
>>They made fun of the six of us in German class, called us Nazis and such.
>>So Spanish always sounds like the language of all the people in my high
>>school I thankfully don't have to spend time with any more.
>
>Odd, very odd. I cant comprehend that kind of attitude. In my HS, people
>took german, french, spanish, or italian. No one ever had any associations
>with any of the languages like that. It was just something you took for
>the requirements.
Same here, but there were certainly cliques based on many other factors.
There was a bit of  friendly rivalry between our (American) Spanish teacher
and the (native) French teacher, who propagandized his students with things
like, "ils parlent espagnole comme une vache française....".  French was far
and away the more popular; Spanish was considered too easy.  And for some
reason the very fine (native) German teacher had to beg for students.

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