Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote:

> In a message dated 4/4/01 11:00:52 AM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> << I'll throw in some other beautiful languages from my point of view: I
> >like Icelandic very much as it is spoken >>
>
> You know, I find this very interesting.  There have been several mentions of
> how beautiful Icelandic, Finnish, Hungarian, and so forth are, and at least
> one person said that Romance languages were the ugliest he'd ever heard.
> That could not be more opposite to myself and most Westerners, I think (the
> ones I know).  Everybody wants to learn either Spanish, French or Italian,
> claiming it to be the most beautiful language on the planet (for me, it's
> French, and I know someone was dogging French earlier).  People who take
> German are made fun of, let alone anyone who so much has heard of any other
If the "you like languages like your native tongue" hypothesis holds
perhaps that's due to the sample here.  :-)  Personally, though I've
taken French, I dislike most of the dialects of it that I've heard.
Italian is bearable, Spanish so-so.  That's just the sound of it, mind
you, and I haven't heard a lot of any of these.

And as for Chinese--I kept hearing it described as "musical," but it
didn't sound at all musical to my admittedly Western-trained ear when I
heard it.  <wry look>

YHL

Reply