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

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 9:09
> > 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! >
"Inarticulate sound" is better than "noise" :P Anyone else not like Finnish as it is spoken? Imperative