Re: What's your favorite sounding word in any language?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 20, 2003, 23:14 |
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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!
Now, I find neither that nor [u:'ju\:r] funny-sounding, but that may be due to
L1 blindness; I really don't hear the sounds, but the meanings.
Andreas
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