Re: OT: German reputation

'gehe' doesn't have an [h] when I say it, but it doesn't have a glottal stop
either, which is inserted by some Germans when imitating the FrenCH (thanks
for the correction). I wonder why some people think of German as a harsh
sounding language. As you say, it may be because of the [x], or because they
haven't any real German, only imitations of Germans speaking English in some
old war films. But anyway, I think the beauty of a language can only be
judged by those who speak it, because it lies in it's words and their suptle
meanings.

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