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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6039 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes  5 sounds | Message 65 of 120 16 August 2009 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Ahh... the elegance of C++, the graceful clarity of Python, the cryptic charm of assembly languages. How come you're not a fan of computer languages? No beating hearth is unaffected by such beauty. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5843 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 66 of 120 16 August 2009 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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C++ Traditional class and style! I'd say it's the German of computer languages.
COBOL being French perhaps? A bit more poetic. Java has to be Spanish - Easy and friendly, goes anywhere... ADA: The United States military has it'S own legacy programming language which I once came across (hehe, despite my reputation on this forum I actually have UK security clearance for military work! If only they knew, lol... ) Anyway, this language is very complicated, looks confusing and I'd call it the Russian of computer languages. php ubiquitous nowadays, neither easy, not extremely hard. The English of the computer languages. Scandinavian languages have to be Ajax, pretty but not strictly necessary. Machine code = Chinese.... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5999 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 67 of 120 16 August 2009 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Please don't let this become a computer based language thing, let's keep the thread on topic.
'Ugliest' sounding language: to my ear is probably Thai and similar languages. But I really think it boils down to the speaker. I've heard 'Strine spoken so badly that it makes me cringe, and there are some people who when speaking French do the same. Edited by ExtraLean on 16 August 2009 at 6:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rggg Heptaglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6330 days ago 373 posts - 426 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Malay Studies: Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, Swedish | Message 68 of 120 16 August 2009 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder ...... or in this case:
Beauty is in the ear of the person who's listening the language. =) There are some languages I don't particularly like that much, but it's just a preference, I don't really think of them as ugly. Some people like vanilla, some people like strawberry. Take care!!! Edited by rggg on 16 August 2009 at 8:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5914 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 69 of 120 16 August 2009 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just heard a bit of spoken Esperanto this morning and OH MY GOOD GOD. Ear pain. It deserves an honourable mention here, as far as I'm concerned. Why do we need this when there's so much beauty around? No offense to any of the Esperanto buffs on this forum, of course, but... I don't get it.
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| Aeroflot Senior Member United States Joined 5607 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 70 of 120 16 August 2009 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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You and I could create a Esperanto dialect based upon French and Swedish! :)
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6899 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 71 of 120 16 August 2009 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also don't think "ugly" is the best word to use in this context, but all the same, the hardest language for me to find anything pleasing about, aesthetically or otherwise, has to be Esperanto.
(EDIT: Oh, and I only just saw Esperanto mentioned in the two previous posts above. Funny, but they must have been published while I was writing this one.) Though completely systematic and regular by design, as a language it's a chaotic and unpalatable patchwork of vocabulary and other elements apparently picked more or less at random from the romance, Germanic, slavic and perhaps another couple of language families. To an observer such as myself, with a general idea of the basics, based on dabbling in it a little years ago, it feels like it lacks a "soul" of its own, that you find in most natural languages. The spelling requires different kinds of accents and special marks on the letters, which seems a totally unecessary complication and inconceivable for someone to actually have built such awkwardness in on purpose in a language intended to gain followers in the millions, ostensibly based on its ease of use. Even so, I am still curious about Esperanto and might yet decide to have a go at it one day. If I do my perception is likely to change too. Among the natural languages, and I think I mentioned this before somewhere, I used to dislike the sound of Chinese but since I took it up myself the hidden beauty started to appear and Mandarin is quite pleasing to my ears these days. The least pleasing-sounding for me has always been Turkish, but it's the same thing there: That would be likely to change if I ever got it into my head to take up studying it. In fact I was subjected to some spoken Turkish on the public announcement system when I changed planes in Istanbul the other week and to my surprise I found myself liking some elements of what I heard, though only in the case of the female voices. Edited by Hencke on 16 August 2009 at 9:05pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6039 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 72 of 120 16 August 2009 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Forgot 'bout Turkish. I also don't like Turkish and have no intention of learning it. However, I probably know at least a score of Turkish words that have penetrated the Bulgarian language and were not purged in the era of purging foreign stuff. Like чешма /cheshma/ and локум /lokum/ for example ;p. Furthermore, it's one of those languages that don't have a script of their own but use one devised for an entirely different language family. Edited by Sennin on 16 August 2009 at 11:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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