Re: Harsh vs. Soft Sounds

Pavel Iosad sikyal:

> > Similarly with spirant frics, but for some reason not
> > sibilants - [z] and [Z] sounds at least as nifty as [s] and [S].
>
> Disagree here. [Z] does not arouse any particular emotion, but [z] is a
> sound I positively dislike (one of the reason I like Swedish ;-)). [v]
> is also pretty ugly. [D] isn't, [G] is ok, and [h\] is positively cool.
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.

> 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.



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