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Re: basic vocab

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Saturday, September 16, 2000, 13:13
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 English, because in some sense I don't "hear" it anymore unless I'm reading poetry. My brain just goes directly to processing meanings and doesn't tell me anything about the aesthetics of sound. Bad brain. <wry g> 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! YHL