Re: Essential Swedish?

Staving Trebor Jung:
>Merhaba!
>
>Estonian is essentially an inflecting form of Finnish whose lexicon is just
>Finnish mangled by syncope and apocope with a whole bunch of foreign words
>pretending to be native.
>
>Polish is essentially Russian spoken by people who thought it was French and
>had to sound awful.
>
>Hungarian is essentially a mangling of Uralic, Turkic, Slavic, and German
>words, with a remarkably Uralicesque grammar.
>
>Swedish is essentially Norwegian plus vowels with tremas.
>
>Georgian is essentially a hybrid of altered IE grammar and Arabic, Persian,
>Turkish, and Russian vocabulary.
>
>Romanian is essentially Latin spoken by Slavs.
>
>French is essentially Latin forced to comply with destructive sound changes
>and German influence.
>
>Ithkuil is essentially an unending phonetic and grammatical nightmare which
>attempts to combine all the world's natlangs together into one big stew of
>unlearnibility and unspeakibility.
>
>--Trebor
English is essentially a language that doesn't care where syllable
boundaries are.

Inglish iz issenshali a langwidje dhat, wen rittun fonetkli, iz ilejibul tu
netiv spikerz.

French is essentially a language that elides everything that doesn't get
out of the way fast enough, and nasalises everything else.

English is essentially the language of people who think that everybody else
speaks their language. French is essentially the language of people who
think that everybody else should speak theirs.

Pete

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