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

Hi!

I'll throw in some other beautiful languages from my point of view: I
like Icelandic very much as it is spoken (my L1 is German if anyone
wants to interpret that).  I have this `Einu sini teildu
Nordhanvinturinn og Solin, hvort theirra vaeri sterkari' in mind.
Very nice sound.  Voiceless nasals are really cool.  Especially when
they try to shout: e.g. `Sveinn' and only [svEI] can be heard...

I also like Finnish a lot because it sounds lazy and cool, like a
language of people who do not live in a hurry.

And people might hit me for this, but I like the sound of Dutch.
Usually, it is agreed on (at least most people I know agree), that it
sounds ugly.  `Geef mij een goede gids over gevels en grachten.'
[xe:f m@ @n xu:j@ xIts OUvR- xe:v@ls En xRaxt@(n)]. :-)
[xR] -- what a sound!!

I also love to listen to Mandarin, because of its rhythm.  And to
fighting people in Japanese, too (someone mentioned that).

And: *Arabic*.  These *great* pharyngeal sounds.  Ah!

Hmm.  Obviously, I have no clear favorite language.

**Henrik

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