Re: CHAT: An introduction

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:35:39 -0400 Sally Caves <scaves@...>
writes:
>
> First of all, I don't think that it's always French that suffers from
> dislikes.  Lately, we've had a number of gallophobic remarks on
> line, but
> that means very little in the world of linguistic likes and dislikes.
> Personally, I'd put my bid in for disliking Spanish more than I
> dislike
> French, but that dislike has personal reasons.  And German is a hell
> of a
> lot harder for me to memorize vocabulary for.  In fact, I quite like
> French;
> I think the nasalities are original to the Romance languages, I like
> how
> they sound, I like the uvular r, and I find it something of an
> achievement
> that I learned to pronounce it at all (Spanish is so easy, and I've
> had so
> much exposure to Mexican Spanish, bein' a California girl), much
> less speak
> it (after a fashion) when I lived in Geneva.  It's so full of idioms
> and
> bons mots.  :)  I think, however, that Italian will be my favorite
[bOnz mOts]? what are those? ;)))

> romance
> language, if I ever master it.  Right now, I'm trying to get a
> handle again
> on German.
i'd think it'd be easy since french is essentially german with messed up
pronounciation and spelling ;)))

> > Well, as a wise sage used to say, 'personal predilections varies
> [sic]
> > widely'. Which as good a basis for ignoring other people's
> _lámatyávi_
> > as anything.
>
> La'mtya'vi.  Please explain.  Lovely word.  Don't know it.
it's quenya... it's the plural of _lámatyáve_ which is _láma_ 'sound' +
_tyáve_ 'taste'.

> Sally Caves
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