R: Re: basic vocab

Nik wrote:


> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > Well, if your prejudices are toward your native language, that would be
> > true.
>
> Hee hee, or if they're AGAINST your native language.  :-)  I personally
> find English an ugly language.  To many consonant clusters, I think, is
> what makes it so ugly.
>
I don't find English so bad. There are many sounds I like in it: the
fricatives /T/ and /D/, for exeple; the approximant /r/, and, after all, the
consonantal clusters are not so bad (there are some really *much more*
cumbersome - Caucasian langs, i.e.).

Anyway we should retain the British pronounciation to say that English is an
euphonious language. I personally hate the way American people utter it (the
Westernest the worst - Californian English).

Luca

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