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Re: Aesthetic Language Sense

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Thursday, October 7, 1999, 0:00
Ed Heil wrote:
> But languages I > don't know well all have the same music to me -- a distinctive music > representative of the language itself;
Really? To me, even languages I don't know have distinct sounds. Tho I know neither Arabic nor Welsh, they definitely have different "feels" to them.
> Does anyone feel the same way? Or did anyone look into it and have a > very different experience of it than mine?
I find a lot of Klingon words quite expressive sound-wise, like: 'uH (/?ux/) = be hungover 'ugh (/?uG/) = be heavy wuQ (/wuR_0/) = have a headache yIH (/jIx/) = tribble (appropriate because Klingons hate 'em) qIp (/qIp/) = hit yay (/jaj/) = be victorious Qut (/R_0ut/) = be vicious Hugh (/xuG/) = throat (tho, perhaps, QuQ would've been better, QuQ is a word, meaning "engine") On the other hand, I can't imagine asking for "bIQ" (water) with a sore throat. :-) -- Oh Lord, grant that we may always be right, for thou knowest we will never change our mind. - Scots Prayer http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/X-Files/ http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor