Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 2, 2001, 20:57 |
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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).
How do others' language-aesthetic-preferences match up?
YHL
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