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Most Beautiful Romance Language

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Poll Question: Most beautiful Romance language (sound, script, grammar, other reason)
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
59 [15.82%]
98 [26.27%]
58 [15.55%]
117 [31.37%]
41 [10.99%]
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ellasevia
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 Message 1 of 95
07 April 2009 at 5:21am | IP Logged 
I do apologize for not including Catalan; it would only allow me to include five choices. Anyways, I'd like to know what people think is the most beautiful Romance language in sound, script, grammar, vocabulary, or any other aspect. I think this is very controversial and the result shall certainly be very interesting.

Note: If you are a native speaker of one of the listed Romance languages, I encourage you not to vote for your own language, but for one of the others (ie, if you're a native speaker of Spanish, your choices would be French, Portuguese, Italian, or Romanian) because anyone could claim that his or her native language is the most beautiful.

ellasevia
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Akipenda Lugha
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 Message 2 of 95
07 April 2009 at 6:26am | IP Logged 
I've never given much thought to why I might consider a language more or less
'beautiful'. Normally when I'm hearing a foreign language I'm concentrating on trying
to understand it rather than its aesthetics. Why do you choose what you choose?
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Sierra
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 Message 3 of 95
07 April 2009 at 6:34am | IP Logged 
I don't think I've heard Romanian, so I can't really judge that one, but out of the other four I'd say Italian hands down. Portuguese sounds cool but not beautiful; I like Spanish but I find it a little dull next to Italian; French is one of my least favorite sounding languages.

I love the combination of lots of As and Os with the distinctive "ci" and "zz" sounds.
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maya_star17
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 Message 4 of 95
07 April 2009 at 7:48am | IP Logged 
I'd too used to the sound of French to notice how it sounds anymore, but I vaguely remember what it sounded like before... it was beautiful. I voted for French, but I think Romanian is beautiful as well.
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LittleKey
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 Message 5 of 95
07 April 2009 at 9:55am | IP Logged 
I voted for Italian. I like the second-to-last syllable stress and the ci and zz sounds, among other things.
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Tyr
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 Message 6 of 95
07 April 2009 at 2:05pm | IP Logged 
Italian.
With French the women sound hot but the guys you just have to kill.
With German the guys sound cool but the women are damn scary.
Italian has both hot women and cool guys.


Romanian and Portuguese don't fit in here IMO. They don't sound very romancy at all. Very rough. Downright Russian to the uneducated.
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ellasevia
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 Message 7 of 95
07 April 2009 at 2:09pm | IP Logged 
Tyr wrote:

Romanian and Portuguese don't fit in here IMO. They don't sound very romancy at all. Very rough. Downright Russian to the uneducated.


What we are dealing with here, Tyr, are not languages that sound "romancy" (I interpret it that you mean it to mean 'pretty') as you put it, but languages that are in the Romance group of the Indo-European language family. That is to say, we are dealing with the languages that are direct descendants from Latin, and not just languages that one person deems to be "romancy." I do hope you understand the distinction.

Edited by ellasevia on 07 April 2009 at 2:25pm

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 Message 8 of 95
07 April 2009 at 2:14pm | IP Logged 
I voted for French, because I think it's sounds are very pleasent to the ear.
I think Italian sounds a little...I don't know...rude or harsh (especially when spoken by a woman). Spanish is cool too, but again, it sounds a little more masculine.

Regards,
Ilhan

PS: Hmm, maybe I do identify beautiful with feminine?!


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