Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:39:25 -0700 JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
writes:
> How interesting! I dislike both [Z] and [z] (one of the reasons why
> French
> is intolerable to me. Chinese is nearly as bad). However, I like [v]
> quite
> a bit, and [D] is pretty good. [G] is also nice. [h] is usually
> good.
>
> On the stop side, I like [t] and [k], but dislike [p] most of the
> time.
> [b] is really terrible, and [g] nearly unconsciable.
i like [Z], [z], [v], [D], [h], [t], [k] and [p]... [b] is the only
voiced stop i really like... [G] and [g] just sound terrible...

> > In another email, Andreas wrote:
> > > As you've probably gathered by now, I hold German to be a more
> > beautiful-
> > > sounding language than French. Apparently a minority opinion ...
> >
> > Count me in.
>
> Me too. It looks like we're becoming a majority.
and me...

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