Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?

>Date:         Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:13:57 +0100
>From: Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
>Subject:      Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?
>
>Quoting "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...>:
>
>> My other favorites include, for example, the Swedish words _odjur_ "monster"
>> (literally "unanimal", which I also think is very clever) and _skymf_
>> "insult".
>
>I just realized I pronounce that [xYmp\] ... and I was thinking of [p\]
as
>a
>foreign sound!
[mp\], not [Ff]? Swedish is even more exotic than I thought.

>Now, I find neither that nor [u:'ju\:r] funny-sounding,
Neither do I.

>but that may be due
>to
>L1 blindness; I really don't hear the sounds, but the meanings.
Yep. It's like asking what's the colour of air.




>Date:         Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:53:32 +0200
>From: "M. Astrand" <ysimiss@...>
>Subject:      Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?
>
>...Why do all these words have in some way negative meanings?
To be a bit more positive, I also have a kind of talisman word: _emberség_.
This is because of a book on the Hungarian language which I once browsed.
It stated that in Hungarian, "the words are written like they are pronounced:
_emberség_ 'humanity'". I thought that was very fitting.
According to the book, it should be pronounced ['EmbErSe:g].


-M. Astrand


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