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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 17 of 47 16 October 2012 at 1:52am | IP Logged | |||||
The problem is that there are too many dialects. Mutual intelligibility is an issue. 11 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5129 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 18 of 47 16 October 2012 at 2:27am | IP Logged | |||||
And if we're to believe Orwell, war is peace, so there's diglossia, too. R. == 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 19 of 47 16 October 2012 at 3:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think I could possibly answer the question. It's like asking who's the most beautiful woman in the world. There are just too many that are jaw-droppingly beautiful, and they all have unique traits to offer. The only difference is that I've met ugly women; I've never met an ugly language.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 20 of 47 16 October 2012 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In this case, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or perhaps I should say in the ear of the listener.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 21 of 47 16 October 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Spoken: Finnish, German, Portuguese, Polish, Icelandic, Danish
Written: Dutch, Finnish, Croatian, Hindi, Indonesian, Galician, Romanian, Esperanto (proper orthography only, especially in the last two) Sung: Finnish, Indonesian, Italian, Belarusian, Norwegian, Swedish If I have to choose just one it's obviously Finnish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| yakherder Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4428 days ago 4 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Korean, French | Message 22 of 47 16 October 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Similar tastes. If I had to choose one I'd say Old English but Icelandic or Finnish sound beautiful to me in the same way. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4843 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 23 of 47 16 October 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Faroese -- followed by Scottish Gaelic and Russian.
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| Zimena Tetraglot Groupie Norway Joined 4591 days ago 75 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German, Spanish Studies: Czech, Mandarin | Message 24 of 47 18 October 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Faroese is beautiful, I agree with you. Sadly, it's also a language I don't hear very often. Where do you usually hear/see it?
I must admit that this is a strange thought to me, as my perception of whether a language is beautiful or not is completely unrelated to whether I understand it. If I find a language beautiful, it might be an incentive to learn more about it, but I don't think the language gets more or less beautiful depending on how much I learn. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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