See Post #55.
Your opinion has been duly noted and registered with the proper authorities.
This is the dumbest pitting I’ve seen yet. The premise that a lot of people think foreign languages are evil is just strawman nonsense.
Yeah. It’s foreigners that are evil.
Dude, this is about foreign languages being discriminated against, don’t bring cute accents into it…
Sorry, someone had to.
French the language of love? Heh, I’d think Mandarin would be the title-holder.
English is, despite a strong Norman French influence (and, frankly, any other languages that we can file off the serial numbers), basically a Germanic language.
I keep checking into this thread in the hopes that the OP will have expanded on whatever the hell he/she may have meant, but no luck so far.
Oh, I know about Manuel, but the spelling was still wrong.
hör auf damit ! sehr schnell!
:: claps :: Posts like this are why I love your schtick.
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
the tbg, the!
This post really betrays that you don’t know the first thing about language. The point you’re making, which is that, given a certain common background, people can objectively agree on certain characteristics of other languages (regardless of who is speaking those other languages) is ignorant.
Your suggestion that perceived ugliness has to do with distance between English and some other language falls apart at the seems when you include German, which is closer to German than 99 per cent of the worlds languages. As others pointed out, English is a Germanic language.
As for ‘harsh’ vs. ‘melodious’, it obviously depends on the speaker, not the language. If someone with a beautiful voice and great diction let’s rip on some beautiful German poetry, it can be perceived as melodious as fuck.
The ‘even I’ bit suggests you know a lot about language, that you are somehow an authority; both your factual assertions (wrong) and your use of English (gibberish) undermine this authority. To give an example of a wrong assertion, you appear to be suggesting that Dutch is unrelated to English (or some of the other languages you know), when in fact Dutch is a Germanic language just like English and German, and is intimately related to both. Also, what the fuck to do you mean by ‘I perceive a certain quality of other’ when you listen to a language that you don’t understand?
Ever worked in a pharmacy? People come sheepishly back later and say:
The bottle broke on me.
Not compared to a hardcore Boston accent.