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

From:M. Astrand <ysimiss@...>
Date:Saturday, December 20, 2003, 22:53
>On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:58:41 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote: >> In general I think Swahili (yes, I know it's not >> related to Somali) has some of the neatest word sounds >> in the world. What's your favorite sounding word?
Scheisse. I can't possibly understand how Germans could have the bad taste to make it a rude word. Unless they wanted to make the thing less unpleasant by giving it a beautiful name... My other favorites include, for example, the Swedish words _odjur_ "monster" (literally "unanimal", which I also think is very clever) and _skymf_ "insult". ...Why do all these words have in some way negative meanings? Also, I find the whole Russian language very beautiful. -M. Astrand _______________________________________________________________________ Parhaat hakupalvelut yhdessä osoitteessa: http://www.eniro.fi/ Suomalaisten yritysten tuotteet ja palvelut: http://yritykset.eniro.fi/

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