Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 5, 2001, 9:51 |
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On 4 April, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
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>> People who take
>> German are made fun of, let alone anyone who so much has heard of any
other
>> language from any country surrounding Germany, or near it (France/Belgium
>> excluded, of course).
>
>They're actually made fun of? That's simply outrageous. The German
>language students at my high school were a minority, but they were hardly
>ostracized (sp?). Stupid fools. They obviously can't appreciate the
>beauty of German and the other Germanic tongues.
I agree. I still remember, in high school, what my
German teacher replied when some of the students
complained about how the lang sounded. He said:
"You've obviously never been seduced in German!"
I think there's something to it. All this discussion
about how a language sounds: I think it might make a difference
under what conditions: being shrieked at in it would probably make
_any_ lang ugly. And, as my German teacher remarked,
being seduced in it can make any lang sound beautiful!
(And, IME, listening to Eurovision songs can make a lang sound
beautiful or simply stupid, depending upon the song! ;-) )
Dan Sulani
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