Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: my proposals for a philosophical language

From:Eamon Graham <robertg@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 17:23
Pavel Iosad wrote:

> Personally, I find French pretty interesting linguistically and its > historical grammar fascinating, but aesthetically it's nowhere near > being a nice-sounding language. In my opinion, of course.
Frankly, it also depends on who is speaking the language: to me, English sounds beautiful out of the mouth of Tom Stoppard but not out of the mouths of others. Same is true of French, Pashto or any other language. I say Pashto because I think Pashto is a very lovely language when spoken by certain presenters on VOA's Pashto service, but there's one presenter who makes it sound rather schlocky. (I use VOA's multilingual broadcasts on the internet when I want inspiration for phonology) Cheers, Eamon