6/21 For the guy who wanted to learn German, don't. It's not a language,
it's a throat disease. Learn a nice language like French or Japanese
or something. -John
\_ Japanese is also a throat disease. If you have to learn an axis
language, try italian.
\_ A schizophrenic mess, yes, but throat disease? The furthest back
fricative or stop in Japanese is palatal. -- ulysses
\_ If you're lingually adept enough for Italian, you'll have no
trouble learning the phonetics of Japanese. The grammar and
writing system are a whole 'nother kettle of fish-heads. -erikred
\_ For some of those Italian girls I'd be lingually anything.
\_ Methinks Dutch is more of a throat disease than German. And for
those who're clueless: Dutch <> DEutSch.
\_ If you were really cluefull you'd call it Nederlandse, the proper
name for the language. Nobody calls Nederlandse "dutch" except
clueless english speakers.
\_ "English", not "Engels", Nederlandse boy. -John
\_ Dear fucktard: I guess the dutch guy i work with who lived
in the Netherlands for all of his 27 years until about two
weeks ago is a "clueless english speaker" then. I had no
idea. And I suppose that means the Swiss guy i work with
who spent five years in grad school at Delft and speaks
fluent Dutch is also a "clueless English Speaker."
Who knew?
\_ I was born in Holland and speak Dutch fluently, and I have
never ever heard the language referred to as "Nederlandse"
by anyone in English. In Dutch it is called "Nederlands",
or you could say "De Nederlandse Taal" (the Dutch Language)
-eric
\_ Thank you, allow me to reward you the "annality prize of
the day" award.
\_ Even more fun is learning Dutch and German.
\_ Afrikaans
\_ French R's are a bit throaty feeling to me. Deutsche throatiness
levels are up to the speaker... you don't have to make the "ch"
noise deep down and some even pronounce it like "sh". Hebrew
seems throatier from what I hear.
\_ According to linguists, the ugliest sounding languages are:
German, Cantonese and Hebrew. |
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