Favorite Language

[theBruiser500]

What is your favorite language? I don't have a lot of experience with languages but I have noticed some things. It seems like in English people talk slower than in other languages, also with less tone inflection and less hand gestures. English doesn't sound as cool as Chinese does to me, I like listening to Chinese people yell. Also when I have seen Italian on TV they get really energetic. I took Spanish in high school, it's okay. German sounds too deep and loud and abrasive to me.

Are these differences in languages that I mentioned imagined or real? What is your favorite language?

[bholdr]

Latin.

sounds like you're saying something profound even when you're talking about taking a dump.

[manpower]

So I've been listening to some cheesy romanian techno and I'll tell you, that romanian sounds like a pretty damn good language. That said it's supposedly the closest living relative of latin.

[brassnuts]

english.

[eric5148]

I like German. It's the loudness and seriousness that makes it funny.

[VBM]

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i'm chinese so i may be biased when i say that i think Mandarin sounds pleasant.

i like british english. really wish i could speak like Brits (word choice & accent)

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english.

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[Cyrus]

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It seems like, in English, people talk slower than in other languages, also with less tone inflection and less hand gestures.

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But they get a lot more energetic and LOUDER when talking to non-English speakers!

My experience has been that English speakers treat non-English speakers as, at best, deaf, or, at worse, retards.

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[thatpfunk]

english for many reasons, followed closely by spanish, then french.

[daryn]

italian you donk

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Klingon, of course. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

But after that, Japanese. Any language that has 5 verbs each for "give" and "receive" and never states anything directly is totally cool, even if it is the most difficult language I've ever studied.

[Lazymeatball]

Do you ever notice how it takes twice as many words to say something in French (and I assume all Romance languages) as it does in English.

Swahili is pretty cool. Jambe means hello.

[dr. klopek]

Italian is my favorite, though I don't speak it.
Latin always sounds like prayer.
German always sounds angry.

[dmk]

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[Skjonne]

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Swahili is pretty cool. Jambe means hello.

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And - more usefull - Matiti Copwa Sane means "Very big Tits"

[sfer]

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English doesn't sound as cool as Chinese does to me, I like listening to Chinese people yell.

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Do you mean Mandarin or Cantonese?

[TimM]

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I like German. It's the loudness and seriousness that makes it funny.

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It's not good for porn though.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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It seems like in English people talk slower than in other languages, also with less tone inflection and less hand gestures.

[/ QUOTE ] How many English people have you spoken to? Jeez man, have you ever talked to a black guy before?

[jakethebake]

English. Those other languages are all Greek to me.

[jakethebake]

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Do you ever notice how it takes twice as many words to say something in French (and I assume all Romance languages) as it does in English.

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Yes. And it's really annoying when they translate songs written in English into those languages because there are just too many syllables. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[theBruiser500]

Mandarin, and I don't like the way black people talk.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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I don't like the way black people talk.

[/ QUOTE ]why?

[theBruiser500]

Sounds goofy to me.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Sounds goofy to me.

[/ QUOTE ]eh, anything that isn't English sounds goofy to me.

[jakethebake]

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Sounds goofy to me.

[/ QUOTE ]eh, anything that isn't English sounds goofy to me.

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That may have been his point. Because they're not speaking English.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Sounds goofy to me.

[/ QUOTE ]eh, anything that isn't English sounds goofy to me.

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That may have been his point. Because they're not speaking English.

[/ QUOTE ]indeed, because only black people say "ya'll", right?

[jakethebake]

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indeed, because only black people say "ya'll", right?

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Y'all? Y'all is a perfectly acceptable contraction. Nothing wrong with contractions.

[ThaSaltCracka]

anyways, English is the best.

[jakethebake]

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anyways, English is the best.

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Decidedly so.

[BeerMoney]

French, Thai and Latin

[theBruiser500]

Jake and Saltcrackir why is english the best?

[jakethebake]

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Jake and Saltcrackir why is english the best?

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Because it's the only one I understand.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Jake and Saltcrackir why is english the best?

[/ QUOTE ]its the only one I know. However, there are a few languages that are fun to listen to, particularly Italian and Greek. Other languages sound like crap to me, French sounds gay as well, and Spanish reminds me a lot like english, but just with different words. Out of all the languages I am the most familiar with Spanish, so maybe thats why it sound similar to me.

[SomethingClever]

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italian you donk

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And it's not close.

[ClaytonN]

Chinese, then French, then Italian

I only speak one of the above, though

[Toro]

Most of the operas are in this language for a reason. Because it sounds so beautiful.

Italian

[jakethebake]

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Most of the operas are in this language for a reason. Because it sounds so beautiful.

Italian

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I thought it was just because those fat Italian women could wail so loud.

[Tosh]

Italian and its not even close.

[Benal]

Le francais.. oui oui

[jakethebake]

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Le francais.. oui oui

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Nah. Whenever I hear French I'm just reminded of Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies talking about the "minkeys in the zou".

[ClaytonN]

À mon avis la langue du Français est meilleure que d'autres langues parce que les mots coulent comme le fleuve

[eric5148]

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Most of the operas are in this language for a reason. Because it sounds so beautiful.

Italian

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Beautiful? It makes my ears bleed.

[mmbt0ne]

I like French the best, but it's only a little above Italian. And that's only because I can speak French, and I have absolutely no idea how to speak Italian.

No other languages ever interested me.

[Benal]

You're from Quebec arent you?

[Toro]

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Most of the operas are in this language for a reason. Because it sounds so beautiful.

Italian

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Beautiful? It makes my ears bleed.

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That's cause you ain't got no culture.

[Gamblor]

There is no chance he put French on here if he ever heard a Quebecois speak.

The closest sound I can think of that could approximate Quebec French is an horn from a semi truck.

[Gamblor]

Ouais, avec tout les chemiques et la pollution

[CORed]

perl

[jdl22]

spoken: Castillian Spanish
sung: Hawaiian

[zephed56]

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perl

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[Duke]

Japanese sounds pretty cool. I never cared for Mandarin. Cantonese is alright. I don't care for most European languages.

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[Diplomat]

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Sounds goofy to me.

[/ QUOTE ]eh, anything that isn't English sounds goofy to me.

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That may have been his point. Because they're not speaking English.

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Nothing like some good old fashioned racism to spice up the board!

-Diplomat

[Reef]

chicks who can speak italian automatically add .5 rating (on the 10 scale)

[BK_]

i-talian and its not even close

[daryn]

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Sounds goofy to me.

[/ QUOTE ]eh, anything that isn't English sounds goofy to me.

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That may have been his point. Because they're not speaking English.

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Nothing like some good old fashioned racism to spice up the board!

-Diplomat

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are you serious man?

[Drac]

German...too many WWII movies for me.

[Gamblor]

No language on earth makes me want to vomit more than German.

[WEASEL45]

cambodian

[Sponger15SB]

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I like listening to Chinese people yell.

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I think you made this up.

Chinese people don't yell.

[jakethebake]

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Chinese people don't yell.

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Yes. They do. I've heard them. "We no suhv dog heuh!"

[Sponger15SB]

Nope, I don't believe it.

Most Asians I know can't speak above a whisper.

[jakethebake]

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Nope, I don't believe it.

Most Asians I know can't speak above a whisper.

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And what about those Karate yells?

[Asnbabe]

I clearly am not the loudest asian person I know, and I yell damn loud -_-

[deacsoft]

I like spanish.