Re: Woody or tinny?

Hi!

> Bjorn Kristinsson wrote:
> > 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 really hate (some) American pronounciations of `mirror' [mIr=:] and
`exactly' [Igz}::::gle] (or the like).  Those're ugly.  Gakh!

In German, I don't like `Strumpf' [StRUmpf] very much, although it's
kind of funny.  I think most words with [2] sound ugly in German.

What's a nice?  I can only come up with bad examples...

Ah, in Mandarin Chinese, I like `fuwuyuan', because it sounds as if a
tape was running at uneven speed. :-)

Are there rules for cacophonies?

:-) Henrik