Re: Aesthetic Language Sense

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.  :-)

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