Re: Aesthetic Language Sense
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 7, 1999, 2:05 |
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Ed Heil wrote:
> I think you misunderstood me... I meant that languages I don't know
> well have an aesthetic effect peculiar to the *language* but that
> overwhelms the music of particular texts in that language; with a
> language I'm more familiar with I can appreciate not only the music of
> the language itself but that of an individual text.
Ah, I did misunderstand you. Then I definitely know the sensation. All
German sounds alike to me, for instance.
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