Mellifluousness (was: Fluency wish-list)

From: "Nik Taylor"

> > 1. english. i think it's no need for french to grieve its soaring reign.
> > the essence of a musical language.
>
> English?  Musical?  I've always thought my native language to be kind of
> ugly-sounding.
"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed..."

Doesn't get much better than that in my book -- assonance, alliteration,
rhythm...<swoon>

(Okay, so I stack the deck with poetry)

As a native speaker, I, too, find it hard to get whipped up over an aluminum
siding brochure or a "Crazy Eddie" commercial, but the loose iambic quality
of everyday speech, the wealth of vowels, and /D/ and /T/ are a delight for
me on a regular basis.

To each his own,

Kou