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

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Frank George Valoczy wrote:
>
> > Having my first language as Hungarian, I consider that the most beautiful
> > of all naturally, but I get this strange feeling when I hear Finnish,
> > Estonian, Sami, Turkish, Inuktitut and Veps that I should understand
> > what's being said (I do if it's the first two!), they're speaking
> > Hungarian why don't I understand?! I think that those languages are the
> > most beautiful. For the longest time, especially when I was younger, I
> [snip]
> You may have something there.  I was about to answer that well, English
> is *my* native tongue and I don't consider it most beautiful (though I do
> like it, and I don't feel it's quite as ugly as others feel it is)...but
> Korean, not English, was my *first* tongue.  And Japanese, which really
> does sound like Korean (not sure about v.v.?) if you're falling asleep
> and not paying attention, is one of my favourite languages (that I've
> encountered).
>
I should have mentioned those as well. I've heard Korean and Japanese
spoken, and they too, (also Mongolian), sound like the speakers are
speaking Hungarian but I don't understand. But, I can usually pick out one
or two words whether I know it or not, I can tell which language it is.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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