Re: OT: Slightly OT: French as a second language

>I'm an American.  And I don't dislike the French; I just dislike the
>language on aesthetic grounds -- but I'm weird.  I think Hebrew is
pretty.

Ooh... me too! This guy at my school knows it fluently, and speaks every
once in awhile...(he HATES English though... wonder why..) I like the
writing, too.... :)

>So do I, depending on who's speaking it, or singing it. Some people
>really go crazy with their /x/s, like they're in a contest or something,
>making me cringe. And of course there are different pronunciations - I've
>heard the Ashkenazic one and the Israeli one, and the "American" one
>that's somewhere in the middle ... never heard Yemenite or anything
>though.
I've only heard one person.... :( But I like it.. he speaks the Israeli
one... isn't it called Sephardic? Or something?

>Same thing with Spanish ... some people I know really hate how it sounds,
>and indeed they make it sound horrible when they speak it. But, as my 9th
>grade teacher made sure to impress upon us, it can also be really lovely.
Spanish used to be ok with me... until last year, where there were
probably more latinos than anything else... drove me nuts! I also don't
really like the sound of German...

>When I listen to those Voice of America broadcasts, I find the most
>pleasant version to be Armenian, followed by Georgian.
>
>Josh Roth
>*heh*  I *write* too much sci-fi.  And I get to teach a class on it next
>year (wooohooo!).
Cool!!! :) I wish I could write... though, if I could, I'd probably write
fantasy...

>It fits him because he's a wisp of a man, and he's plugging a hole in
>reality like a cork.
Neato... :)

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