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Re: Essential Swedish?

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 9:03
This one actually came up spontaneously during a discussion of various accents
at the bar yesterday (OK, early today morning!):

Czech is essentially Russian with beer instead of vodka.

                                                       Andreas

Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:

> I thought Polish was invented by a Scrabble-player who > decided that the letters w, k, y, z would be worth > only 1 point each. This guy was probably living in a > country where there were lots of flies, because they > left plenty of various and strange diacritic signs on > every possible letter. > > As to the sound of it, it is very similar to > Portuguese when you stand 3 meters away, and to > Russian when you come closer. > > --- Danny Wier <dawiertx@...> wrote: > > From: "Trebor Jung" <treborjung@...> > > > > > Polish is essentially Russian spoken by people who > > thought it was French > > and > > > had to sound awful. > > > > I don't think it sounds awful at all! > > ===== > Philippe Caquant > > "Le langage est source de malentendus." > (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com >