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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6090 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 41 of 80 17 May 2008 at 4:15am | IP Logged | ||
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This is an interesting discussion.
It speaks more of aesthetics than anything else but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the opinions or feelings of those who've contributed to the discussion. I kind of like this. It's rather revealing ;) No one can really argue anything here because it's all relative and personal. You either disagree or agree. For what it's worth, I don't care for Tagalog. I won't say it's "ugly" because that's a bit strong. I just don't know much about it. I'm actually hoping I'll get somebody to tell me a bit more about it :) Edit: anyone who thinks German sounds weird needs to read The Awful German Language by Mark Twain. It's a great satirical look at German! Edit again: Okay, just a thought...should we split the discussion into two groups? Those who find a language to be ugly and who already speak it/know it, and those who don't have any prior knowledge at all and just plain don't like it? Would that make the opinion any less valid? Edited by Sunja on 17 May 2008 at 5:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageGeek Triglot Senior Member GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6112 days ago 151 posts - 159 votes 4 sounds Speaks: German*, English, Hungarian Studies: French, Russian | Message 42 of 80 17 May 2008 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh my dear Sunja, your suggestion is witty and clever but you'd make the discussion even fuzzier :)
I think those who didn't approve of this thread to begin with already vented their dismay and moved on. By the way Mark Twains article on German is a real gem for language fans, especially if you know German. It is very tongue-in-cheekly and I think Twain came to appreciate the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6670 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 43 of 80 17 May 2008 at 7:54am | IP Logged | ||
No way! Really? I think it's one of the most pleasant sounding languages on the planet! Also, Urdu sounds really good to me, but has been mentioned as ugly.. Personally, I don't like tonal languages, especially Vietnamese. But the language I dislike hearing the most is Arabic with it strange emphatic consonants, which sound pretty aggressive to my ears, and the gagging sound 'ayn, which provokes associations to vomiting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6090 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 44 of 80 17 May 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
That works for me! Let's move on ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mikko Newbie Finland Joined 6133 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Finnish* | Message 45 of 80 17 May 2008 at 9:04am | IP Logged | ||
I think danish sounds like vomiting. Though, for some reason it is one of my favourites. I should learn it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ayane Newbie United States isby-girlfriend.smac Joined 6090 days ago 32 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 47 of 80 17 May 2008 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't think so many people would think Dutch was ugly, I think it sounds adorable! xD The replies about Russian are a shock too, I think it's really pretty.
Hmm, I personally, really don't like French, it's probably the only language I wouldn't learn. >w< Also, I have a love hate thing going on with Spanish...I like too watch anime dubs in Spanish and Telenovelas from Mexico and the language will sound really cool, the female voices the most, but I don't really like any other regional Spanish, especially from Spain. ]: 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7161 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 48 of 80 17 May 2008 at 10:02am | IP Logged | ||
Vlad, I see your point coming from an area where national self-consciousness is fostered more compared to North America. Yet I think that there's a bit of self-selection going on in this thread. The people who take offense to this question have said their piece and refrained from commenting further, while those who aren't bothered by the idea, have posted but haven't been as foolish so as to use this thread as a flaming session (so far). I also agree with your point that some of the opinions here will clash with that of others. Yet, by and large, people can agree to disagree and leave it at that. I don't see the need to automatically cut off the discussion before it can even begin. This could be just my imagination, but I wonder whether being a native speaker of English or another "prestige" language tends to elicit a greater willingness to have this kind of discussion. Certainly we native speakers of English realize that English is so widespread and appears in so many different varieties that there are some varieties (even our own) that sound unappealing or look unattractive. As I stated earlier, after spending some time in Europe on various trips, the appearance and enunciation of my native idiolect at home seems rather ugly. It's a little weird. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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