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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5059 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 9 of 46 09 March 2012 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yet English is notorious for its conversion, you exaggerate: conversion is very freqent in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 10 of 46 09 March 2012 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not sure I agree with this. I don't have any figures but I suspect English has one the largest vocabularies on the planet, and grows larger every day as new words are invented, meaning not static. Maybe you're referring to its grammar being inflexible? R. == Edited by hrhenry on 09 March 2012 at 1:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5059 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 11 of 46 09 March 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
The grammar is flexible enough too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5265 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 12 of 46 09 March 2012 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What is a "beautiful" language is a topic that comes up quite regularly. It is an opinion that is often influenced by and based on one's own native language biases. What is beautiful to the ears of a native English speaker may differ substantially from what is beautiful to the ears of a native speaker of another language. I'm reminded of a quote by Confucius: "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it".
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5222 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 13 of 46 09 March 2012 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I like that quote!
by Confucius: "Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it". So, so true. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4850 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes | Message 14 of 46 09 March 2012 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
:p just read his question, he wants our PERSONAL ideas Yes, music: rock, pop, dance, country, hip-hop, metal... It's vocabulary is just brilliant, though a bit odd at times For me, English is just amazing. I must agree that Opera sounds better in Italian though 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| lynxrunner Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States crittercryptics.com Joined 5925 days ago 361 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Haitian Creole | Message 15 of 46 09 March 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Everybody knows opera sounds best in German. ;)
Seriously, though, I am not a fan of Italian operas. It just fits German so well... To me the most beautiful languages are Finnish and Swedish, but since neither of those are present... I have a personal thing for German, but I wouldn't call it beautiful. I like Russian, but once again, beautiful is not a word I would use to describe it. English is a fantastically flexible language, but once again, not beautiful. I would say French out of all of those is the most beautiful to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 16 of 46 09 March 2012 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have changing subjective opinions about language beauty, but I can tell you in the cases of Norwegian and Indonesian, I was turned off of those languages because I simply didn't like the sound of them. I feel shamed to admit that about Norwegian since it is one of my ancestral languages and we have the very lovely Solfrid Cristina posting on this board.
There is something beautiful I find in German. It's not even my best language, but I got surprisingly good with only a little effort. When I am around it, I have a very comforted and satisfied feeling. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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