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« on: April 27, 2014, 10:00:15 PM »
Random late-night thought: The Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian) are considered beautiful and pleasing to the ear, while Germanic languages are thought of as harsh and ugly (stimme nicht!).




How is English viewed by the non-English speaking world?
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« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2014, 10:03:34 PM »
Emotionally and psychologically inexpressive, clinical, analytical, and perhaps overly-focused on narrow terminological precision over conceptual accuracy.
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2014, 10:25:12 PM »
Quote from: Meursault on April 27, 2014, 10:03:34 PM
Emotionally and psychologically inexpressive, clinical, analytical, and perhaps overly-focused on narrow terminological precision over conceptual accuracy.

......so neutral?
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2014, 10:29:57 PM »
"Neutral" in the same way science is: not really, but it makes a good show of it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2014, 10:56:32 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2014, 11:55:44 PM »
Two things:

a) It's "stimmt nicht" and not "stimme nicht" Tongue

b) To me, English sounds like a very pratcical language, very fit as a world language (once you get over those not logical spelling rules). It is much more melodic, soft and "beautiful" then standard German, but it's still a long road till let's say Italian.
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2014, 12:31:34 AM »

That was better than OLL RAIGTH!
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« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2014, 09:09:39 AM »
Ollraigth!

Great video, great song, although that seemed specifically to mimic American language and American music.  Maybe Italians don't distinguish between American and English.
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« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2014, 12:29:49 PM »
 A good example of what American English sounds like to foreigners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
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« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2014, 03:06:41 PM »
Quote from: PA Speaker Cranberry on April 27, 2014, 11:55:44 PM
Two things:

a) It's "stimmt nicht" and not "stimme nicht" Tongue

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So now it's "neutral to mildly pleasing" then, yes?
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« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2014, 03:40:55 PM »

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ollright!!!
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« Reply #11 on: April 29, 2014, 06:22:08 PM »
I wonder if anyone has done that song for Eurovision.
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