Re: CHAT: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 4, 2001, 3:59 |
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:57:05 -0400, Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> wrote:
>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
Well, I wouldn't put German or any other close relatives of English high on
my list of pleasant-sounding languages. Some of the nicest-sounding
languages to my ear are Welsh, Portuguese, Finnish, Hungarian, and the
former Serbo-Croatian. I don't care much for the sound of Thai or
Vietnamese. Japanese is fun to listen to, and has a lot of expressive
character, but I wouldn't call it beautiful.