Re: Woody or tinny?

In a message dated 5/15/01 3:18:09 AM, bjornkri@HI.IS writes:

<< This made me wonder, people on this list generally seem to have a
preference

for how a word should sound, and then I presume there must be a preference

for how they should NOT sound. So, can you name me some words (natlang

probably, conlang if you've got them) that you find particularly ugly? >>

    I could take a German dictionary and list just about every word.  In
fact, the same goes for Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish,
Russian, Icelandic and any dialect therein.  Aside from those, though, I
can't stand the word "muchacho/a", "chico/a" and the very odd conjugation of
the verb "to work" in Spanish in the imperfect tense in either the first or
third person singular: "trabajaba".  Of course, it's six thirty right now
(final at 8:00 a.m.), so I'm caught a bit off guard...  Maybe more will come
to me.  Like any word in English with a "ch" or "sh" when they pronounce them
as retroflex sounds.  Ick.

-David

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