Re: Favourite Language Group?

 --- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
>
> Well, I detest French...Beautiful language?  What a
> joke. I like Latin,
> Romanian, and possibly Sardinian, if I got to know
it.

well, i love french ( great to talk ) but have great
trouble with spanish ( castillian anyway ) . . . it's
the intonation patterns, they just make everyone sound
so bored

i actually quite like standard german, particularly
with a mild berlin accent ( i like the way /ai/ and
/au/ tend to /Ei/ and /Ou/ and the near loss of final
/r/ ), i really like russian, and have a huge crush on
icelandic

i also really like the classical ie languages, having
done quite a bit of latin and greek, knowing a bit of
sanskrt, and wanting to get to know some gothic

written i like the look of the languages of the indian
subcontinent, particularly the souther, dravidian,
ones

and for sheer fun, i think it has to be cantonese (
and tonal languages in general ) . . . i love having
to throw your voice all over the place to pronounce
things ! i also find the sentence structure
fascinating, and it's had quite an influence on bac

but, as you can see, in general i'm an ie sort of boy

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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