One of my favorite words in my language is Ararowen (pronounced:
Air-ah-rowen). And also one of my favorites is the name of the twelfth
month is Dolola, (Long Os and A). And I just used one of the ugliest
words I know, twelfth.
Patrick
At Tuesday, 15 May 2001, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I've noticed most asked seem to say that they're building of a vocabulary
is
>generally done on an aesthetic basis; either by using 'nice' or even
>'beautiful' words for 'beautiful' meanings and 'ugly' words for 'ugly'
>meanings, or vice versa. Or just one of these (probably more common,
we all
>want out conlang to sound beautiful, don't we? :)
>
>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?
>
>Two words of English I particularly dislike are 'queue' and 'genre'
(the
>latter with most sorts of American accent is appalling to my ear).
Dunno
>why, no explanations needed :)
>
>Bring 'em if you've got 'em
>
>Bjorn
>
>P.S. Just remembered a story about JRR Tolkien I heard once and it went
>something like this: he said that in his mind the most beautiful
word he had
>ever heard was 'Selador', and everyone around him agreed that 'Selador'
was
>indeed a particularly beautiful word. Later, Tolkien pointed out
that it was
>pronounced just like the more familiar word, 'cellar-door'. :)
>
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