Re: French
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 12:04 |
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Them's fightin' words indeed! Language beauty is all in the tongue of the
beholder. Or the eye of the speaker. Or the...
AHEM! At any rate, I think French has a very unique sound. And some real
beauties of structure and expression. On the other hand, and this will irk
some of my conlang friends, but I have to say it and I can hardly keep my
sides from shaking with laughter, but I've heard Danish described by one
cynic as.... hahahaha! .... the "throw-up language." Lot's of swallowed
"l"s and that sort of thing. Course, this is just hearsay, since I don't
know much Danish much less how to pronounce it. So we can step outside and
settle it with fistycuffs.
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" <latinfrench@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: French
> Nik writes:
>
> >I just wish it sounded nicer, without all those ugly
> >nasal vowels and front rounded vowels and with more stops to give some
> >texture to the sound. :-)
>
> Steady, lieutenant. Them's fightin' words. A day without front
> rounded vowels is like a day without sunshine.
>
> Ööööööö, üüüüüüü,
>
> Kou
>
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