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Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, August 29, 2003, 18:44
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:45:56PM -0400, Sebastian Adems wrote:
> Well, for instance, French would be considered soft, where as a more > guttural sounding language (can't think of anything right now, maybe LotR > Orc tongues?)
You don't have to go that far afield. German is a pretty harsh/guttural language. English is somewhere more toward the middle thanks to French influence. -Mark

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