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

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 19:29
> I hear (or at least can hear) Finnish almost daily and I > don't find it beautiful at all. (The common opinion in > Sweden is that Finnish isn't a language, it's an inarticulate > sound). Although I love its phonology and its grammar, so > I wondered what was wrong. I figured it had to be the initial > stress and tried to pronounce it with a Quenya-like stress > and the result was marvellous! Suddenly it sounds absolutely > wonderful! >
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 couldn't stand to hear Romance languages, I thought they were the most hideous sounding thing in the world. And when I went to visit my cousin in Sweden and heard Swedish for the first time I nearly passed out...I remember his dad cracking up when I asked why everybody is singing all the time... In short I think one's native language has a lot to do with whether or not one thinks a language is beautiful. I can understand why to the Swedish ear Finnish doesn't sound very beautiful, but to the Hungarian or Turkish ear it is quite! -------ferko Ferenc Gy. Valoczy Suurt chugunikka peene ahjo suhe et toukka. Virtual Votia - Vaddjamaa Internetaza: http://www.geocities.com/uralica railways page: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/3976/ 25kV 50Hz: http://www.mp3.com/25kV50Hz

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