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Sennin
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 Message 41 of 120
15 August 2009 at 1:55am | IP Logged 
ellasevia wrote:
Sennin wrote:
I also don't like the use of Cyrillic in Mongol. It's very odd, when you try to read it looks familiar at first but what a disappointment... it's completely incomprehensible. I think Mongol is the only language in the world to use Cyrillic in spite of being totally unrelated to Slavic languages.


Actually, there are many non-Slavic languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet. These are mainly languages that are from an ex-Soviet state, but still, they exist.

Some examples of these are Mongolian (as you mentioned), Kazakh, Tajik, Kyrgyz, Uzbek (also uses Latin alphabet), and more. If you want an exhaustive list, go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_using_Cyrillic


Half the world ^_^. I should rejoice the fact so many people use my script ;p.

Still, I don't like it when a language uses Cyr/Latin because of previously existing empires and dominions. Especially when the script and language are totally unrelated.

Edited by Sennin on 15 August 2009 at 1:59am
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healing332
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 Message 42 of 120
15 August 2009 at 2:51am | IP Logged 
Oleg wrote:
There are no ugly languages. What a bullshit? How can a language be ugly? I'm Russian, so the sounds of Slavic languages don't seem weird to me; I can't say the same about English, for instance. But I don't consider Chinese weird or even ugly because it has so many sounds that you would never hear in Russian. Chinese is just different. It's the same with races: I don't consider all non-white people ugly. Their beauty is just different.


This is actually wrong because the people who were who were calling there language ugly were DUTCH calling Dutch ugly..I have heard quite a few people from the middle east(israel)say it that their language sounds very unpleasant

Footnote: There are no white people only different nationalities but i get your example

Edited by healing332 on 15 August 2009 at 2:53am
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Oleg
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 Message 43 of 120
15 August 2009 at 11:52am | IP Logged 
healing332 wrote:
Oleg wrote:
There are no ugly languages. What a bullshit? How can a language be ugly? I'm Russian, so the sounds of Slavic languages don't seem weird to me; I can't say the same about English, for instance. But I don't consider Chinese weird or even ugly because it has so many sounds that you would never hear in Russian. Chinese is just different. It's the same with races: I don't consider all non-white people ugly. Their beauty is just different.


This is actually wrong because the people who were who were calling there language ugly were DUTCH calling Dutch ugly..I have heard quite a few people from the middle east(israel)say it that their language sounds very unpleasant

Footnote: There are no white people only different nationalities but i get your example


As for the people considering their mother tongue ugly, I think it has nothing to do with languages. There are people who think that everything related to/coming from/made in their country is ugly and the worst imaginable.) And it doesn't depend on living standard or quality of life in their country. I know people from Germany who dislike German cars just because they're German.
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 Message 44 of 120
15 August 2009 at 1:21pm | IP Logged 
I can't stand the sound of Brazilian Portuguese; it drives me up the freaking wall! It's totally weird, since everyone else seems to love it. Maybe my ears are broken ;-)
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Ruan
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 Message 45 of 120
15 August 2009 at 5:36pm | IP Logged 
I don't see how a language can sound ugly unless it was meant to sound so. General
complaints about one language's harshness mainly arise from its foreign character, and
not from its features.

In the domain of intended clumsiness I see a couple of humorous conlangs and Orc talk
in Tolkien works (you can hear it at LotR movies). Klingon doesn't sound so, it reminds
me of French or something.

rodarmor wrote:
I can't stand the sound of Brazilian Portuguese; it drives me up the
freaking wall! It's totally weird, since everyone else seems to love it. Maybe my ears
are broken ;-)


OLÁ COMO EXTA VOSSE!11!1!!

Edited by Ruan on 15 August 2009 at 5:38pm
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 Message 46 of 120
15 August 2009 at 6:00pm | IP Logged 
Lizzern wrote:
There's nothing quite as ugly-making in any language as a native speaker butchering their own language.


*confused* and people affected by dyslexia !?

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Actually, any careless speaker who doesn't give a flying ducky about how they speak.


:S but non-talkative persons may not do that on purpose ;)
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Lizzern
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 Message 47 of 120
15 August 2009 at 6:11pm | IP Logged 
That's not what I meant, dyslexia is another matter altogether (and obviously entirely forgiveable). What I'm talking about is people who clearly know how to speak and write correctly but instead cut corners in their own language (on purpose or out of laziness), making it sound bad. Nevermind though, hard to explain.
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ellasevia
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 Message 48 of 120
15 August 2009 at 6:28pm | IP Logged 
Lizzern wrote:
That's not what I meant, dyslexia is another matter altogether (and obviously entirely forgiveable). What I'm talking about is people who clearly know how to speak and write correctly but instead cut corners in their own language (on purpose or out of laziness), making it sound bad. Nevermind though, hard to explain.


I know exactly what you mean. It drives me absolutely crazy when people do that. Not necessarily speaking, though; it can also be writing. One thing that is absolutely maddening is when people write "u r" for "you are" and similar peculiar abbreviations for "text language."


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