Re: Language Difficulty
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 28, 2001, 12:47 |
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>:
>
> > Anyone who doesn't think German is a beautiful language should listen
> > to
> > "Mutter der Mann mit dem Koks ist da" by Falco. Ignore Falco - listen
> > to
> > the female back up singer.
> >
>
> What a coincidence! I just discovered Falco (with the song "Gini", one of the
> most beautiful songs I ever heard) and it made me revise my opinion about
> German: it can sometimes sound nice. But I still think that spoken German
> sounds absolutely awful (especially the dreaded ich-laut, which makes me think
> that when people say "Ich liebe dich", they want to beat their partner to
> death!).
Ah, but you see, the dialect I've been most exposed to says, [IS li:b
dIS], and I think [S] is a nice sound. =)
>
> On the other hand, I find Dutch a very beautiful language, as strange as it can
> be. And it's so nice when well sung. Too bad that Dutch people seem to be
> afraid of singing Dutch, except for carnaval songs...
>
The only Dutch song I've ever heard was the PSV Eindhoven club song, sung
by many drunk Dutchmen =) It's a great song...voor rood-wit
gezongen... (I'm a PSV fan, if you can't tell yet!)
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