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Re: basic vocab

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, September 16, 2000, 14:14
On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, The Gray Wizard wrote:

> > From: Yoon Ha Lee > > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Nik wrote: > > > > > Yoon Ha Lee wrote: > > > > Well, if your prejudices are toward your native language, > > that would be > > > > true. > > > > > > Hee hee, or if they're AGAINST your native language. :-) I personally > > > find English an ugly language. To many consonant clusters, I think, is > > > what makes it so ugly. > > > > <laugh> Whereas I like German if I'm trying to sound militaristic, > > *because* of the consonant clusters. I'm actually neutral toward > > Hmmm. Is there really anything inherently "militaristic" about German > phonology or is this just a stereotypic cultural reaction?
I don't actually know, but compared to Korean (a language where I *can* sit back and just listen to the sounds without having the meaning-processor in my brain wipe all the sounds out), it's a very harsh-sounding language, and rendering German words in Korean is pretty nightmarish.
> > I someday have to figure out how to merge German and Japanese. It'd be a > > fun exercise, but I don't know nearly enough about either language! > > These are two of my favorites as well. I once experimented with mixing > German lexis with Japanese syntax and then the reverse. Never got really > far with either, but it might be fun to revive the effort.
I will work on it as my knowledge of both increases, but it may take a while! Do you think German lexis with Japanese syntax or v.v. would be more fun and/or feasible? I'm thinking German lexis with Japanese syntax--have fun confusing the German readers. ;-) YHL