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

From:M. Astrand <ysimiss@...>
Date:Sunday, December 21, 2003, 1:25
>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 _______________________________________________________________________ Parhaat hakupalvelut yhdessä osoitteessa: http://www.eniro.fi/ Suomalaisten yritysten tuotteet ja palvelut: http://yritykset.eniro.fi/

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